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how dare you suggest the god of reagan would support anything other than a flat tax, sir!

to quote cheech n' chong: "things are tough all over"

it's always fun to quote the father of capitalism in any conversation on wealth in a nation "Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions." this one seems appropriate for the man in question too: "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." - adam smith

2017 february - the civil war: a narrative, vol. 1-3 - shelby foote - sigh...finished the last of these million n' a half words this afternoon, the work of something like 5 months of continuous study - sigh....i can't imagine what will fill the empty place - somehow like the war itself ending with all the requisite revulsion n' nostalgia somehow intermixed - so many incredible stories, wrought in the most poetic of fashions, and both the subjects and the word-smith long, long dead and turned to ash - we will not see their likes again? can't believe i grew up so deeply enamoured of ken burns' series, which featured foote so extensively, and borrowed from his narrative to the point of nearly co-opting it entirely, without having dared to take up the trilogy - guess i was a bit intimidated as it's damn near 3000 pages in total, but in the end as compelling if not more than patrick obrian - like setting out on a circumnavigation of the world in a wooden vessel, you must make a companion of the long journey ahead, lest it drive you loopy shit...guess i only ever read one book of bruce catton, maybe it'll do the trick? muchias gracias to bill coe for lending me the set - i can't claim to return them in anything like original condition, but the burgundy stains and the dog-ears on every page containing a map (far too fucking few in vol 1-2) sure does lend it that lived-in look

nary a breast in all that bedlam?

the lamentably fey lincoln in that fell theater

obsequious opportunists picking through the prime flesh of felled and prostrate amerika

only 3 days more left to get in on this bitches - "mutterings in march" aint' gonna have quite the same ring...

betties who don't bounce

bouncing betties

strippers who DO mind

strip mines

whatever the fuck crawled inside walter n' made him look like a fucking macy's day parade float

just about all who'd speak ill of the perfectly post modern jukebox [video:youtube]

razor wire in these rare olde times - all them georgians who ain't high as the pines...

the lizards currently lording over the land

lazy-eyed lounge-singers

the mormon tabernacle choir

horror movies where they invite more white-folks into the house

rodney dangerfield in all roles except "natural born killers"

neutron bombs in november

wet firecrackers

hellish introspection in heathen hours

family values, family restaurants, family theme-parks, family-friendly, fucking families

post-coital conversation