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Recycle your damn water bottles.
BR asked me: Do you think the Republicans are just tax cut happy because they really believe it will help (somehow) or that they are also using it to try to choke off the ability of the government to do anything effectively, and therefore, pumping up their argument that anything done by the government, aside from the military, is better done by the private sector? I mean, that is probably what people like Tom DeLay want, but is that widespread? I think the whole issue of taxation is of a piece with Iraq. It's ideology. The current administration, unlike Bush I, is not timid in the face of pure right ideology. It's very Reaganesque in that way, in the sense that the Bush neocons, the real Straussians , see liberal leadership as America's Weimar leadership : weak, timid, unwilling to use the power of office to do anything other than please its array of liberal PACs and lawyers. Conservatives feel that (a) power is a good thing and (b) power should be used, and used s
Because eventually, like it always does, the truth will emerge. And when it does, this house of cards, built of deceit, will fall. -- Sen. Byrd's Senate Floor Remarks May 21, 2003
The Douglas Adams link that's making the rounds made me think of Doctor Who. I was a huge fan of the show back in the early 80s. I was such a total geek. About a year ago I had Doctor Who nostalgia and watched a couple of storlines on VHS. It had to admit it bored me. The scripts seemed dumb, the special effects sucked, and I was suddenly older.
yours is the only version of my desertion that I could ever subscribe to -- Interpol, "PDA" from Turn on the Bright Lights
My life repeatedly appears as the difficult second album .