JC Cortez

“Today was better than yesterday,” Principal Cano told me two years ago in the wake of the most painful event I ever covered. Four people awoke to find their home engulfed in flames. Unsafe heating somewhere in the house had caught fire in just the wrong place. Because you put heating where people are; remember this. Two little girls died in the resulting blaze along with their great-uncle and the grandmother who, upon making it to safety, sacrificed her life to try and save the children.

In 1984, Winston Smith worked as a Records Department clerk for the Ministry of Truth. I don’t remember exactly which stage Winston was responsible for, but I remember the standard MiniTru process for records corrections involved a lot of work. Basically, they would send out representatives to collect old newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, posters, newsreels — anything that would hold information. Clerks examined the materials and made any necessary corrections.

Support for Gary Johnson, Former New Mexico Governor and current Libertarian candidate for President of the U.S.A., has roughly doubled over the past three months. In that same time, most of the rest of the country has either abandoned hope or resigned to supporting one of the two major party politicians. Most people have only succeeded in that effort by focusing hard on their overwhelming disgust with the opposing nominee.