This is how democracy dies...

[Serenity]

That's a far cry from your usual dancing and giggling as you prance through the spray of the "sprinkler".

 

[ivan]

Um, that is anarchy, NOT democracy.

"the boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave" - thomas jefferson

 

sometimes them waves can build up into a damn tsunami, no?

[tvashtarkatena]

I'm grabbing my dry suit.

[Serenity]

I'm grabbing my dry suit.

 

Yeah? You should wrap yourself up in a douche-bag.

[JayB]

Um, that is anarchy, NOT democracy.

"the boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave" - thomas jefferson

 

sometimes them waves can build up into a damn tsunami, no?

 

Perhaps that was "le deluge" Louis the 14th was referring to. I expect Chavez to promote liberty at least as well as Robespierre and Marat did.

[ivan]

god i loved marat! so was jim morisson totally trying to copy-cat him or what?

 

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!

[JayB]

Scrofula, copper bathtubs, and chicks with daggers come to mind much more readily than Jim Morrison so you'll have to help me out a bit on that one.

 

I always thought that he made an interesting contrast to Franklin.

[ivan]

morisson and marat both died in bath-tubs in paris - both were demagogues - both died young - both were assholes, albeit linguistically gifted ones

[Dechristo]

I expect Chavez to promote liberty at least as well as Robespierre and Marat did.

 

I heard recently Chavez has ordered all the clocks in his kingdom changed one half hour.

[JayB]

Thermidor...

[JayB]

morisson and marat both died in bath-tubs in paris - both were demagogues - both died young - both were assholes, albeit linguistically gifted ones

 

Aha. I forgot about Morrison and the Tub...

[Dechristo]

Moved by claims that it will help the metabolism and productivity of his fellow citizens, President Hugo Chavez said clocks would be moved forward by half an hour at the start of 2008.