I don't want a revolution in the bloody sense, but I would not mind seeing a radical reassertion of our core insistence on rational values. One simple example is the bizarre practice (just for example here) of bundling legislation behind headings and subjects that have nothing to do with it. So you get a senator pushing a pork barrel job relating to all his roller-skate rental-booth friends back in Nebraska, and it is tucked deep inside some hot issue relating to flood control. Thanks God the Senate is on the job, taking care of Mississippi flood control!! You turn around all of a sudden the flood control bill has passed and inside it, several million roller-skate renters in Nebraska are getting checks from Uncle Sam and there is NO rational connection wheresoever. This kind of shenanigan is BRAZEN DISHONESTY and INTENTIONAL IRRATIONALITY!! It oughta be taken out and shot.

Now, that's just one little example of institutionalized corruption and degradation and there are plenty of others. It makes my poor heart to bleed, it truly does. How can we trust a man to be enlightened when he is dealing with double-tongued double-dealing duplicity like this?

At least when Patrick said "Now gimme liberty, or fuck it, ghive me death!!" you could understand him!! Anyone here "understand" the Patriot Act and its reptilian cousins? I kinda thought so...

Amos steamingatthekeyboard...