Thanks for the empathy, Bobert. ;-) Personally, I find my political views refreshing and timely. One of the reasons I can have such views with equanimity is that I feel my real job in life is changing myself, not changing the entire social destiny of the USA and the western world. There has always been much oppression and political corruption in the world. There probably always will be. In the meantime I still have to deal with what my life is really about...my own development as a living, breathing, thinking, and learning soul...and my human connections...my friends and my loved ones.
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The "two brains" video is hilarious, GfS! And pretty darned well spot on...although the worst case of sitting with the remote and flipping TV channels that I ever saw is my mother, but it isn't that she's not thinking while she does it. She IS thinking about what she watches when she watches TV...so I guess she's not doing it quite the way most men do it.
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Amos, I am worried about you. You have started using the term "horse puckey" far too often, and we all know what that means...!
It means you are mutating cell by cell into a rabid Reaganite DougR-style conservative. You may only be in the early stages, Amos, so I advise you to get help NOW! While there is still time. I shudder to think what may happen if you don't.
In a few months you will be endorsing McCain if this insidious process goes on without immediate medical intervention. Call up Doktor Liebenscheiss, man! Don't delay!