Police Militarization In Ferguson.

The police in Ferguson – and most militarized police forces around the country — have more and better equipment than I did when I served in the army. And I wasn’t in some forgotten-about unit on a small base, either.

The police are largely now an occupation force arrayed against their own citizens, and have nothing to do with the credo “to protect and serve.”

This of course tends to happen in oligarchies.

Awake within a dream: lucid dreamers show greater insight in waking life.

I’ve been lucid dreaming since I was 10, in fifth grade, after I read about it in an Omni magazine and decided to try it.

There was another kid who was doing it with me, and we talked about building a “dream VCR” one day. We didn’t quite understand the extent of the technical problems involved in that at the time.