"...The Residents' first touring show tells the story of two very different cultures being forced into contact with one another. The dourly religious but hard working Moles are forced out of their underground habitat by a natural disaster. They are reluctantly forced to seek refuge in the land of the Chubs, who are more technologically advanced and materialistically better off. While life may not be so harsh there however, they don't take too kindly to 100,000 refugees. The Chubs exploit the Moles. They take on some of them as cheap labour and consign the rest to poverty in ghettos. One Mole, a scientist, decides to build a great machine which will bring 'freedom in the holes.'" From The Moles Present The Residents. The Residents, the whole Residents and nothing but The Residents.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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