Fifty Reasons Not to Vote for Arnold (AlterNet): "Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger declared he was running for governor, it feels like we're stuck in a Conan rerun, only this time round, it's Arnie the Republican who seems determined to wear the jeweled crown of California upon his troubled brow. What's troubling about all this (besides the fact that we will personally drop-kick the next person who says, writes or ululates the phrase 'The Governator') is that people from all across the political spectrum seem to be saying, 'What the heck! I'm voting for Arnie!' That kind of reckless abandon works well when renting Arnie's latest action flick, but it bodes badly for the well-being of California - and we can tell you why, in 50 easy reasons!"
Talking to regular folks that I meet in my day-to-day travels, many of them are actually considering voting for this guy. Are we living in an absurd, Ionesco-esque reality out here on the Left Coast, or what?
"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."