I heard there were 55,000 people there . . . let's hope 55,000 people booing at him put a dent in that man's intractable arrogance. Sitting next to Giuliani at a baseball stadium wearing a New York team's baseball hat and he still gets booed by New Yorks' finest baseball fans . . . let that be a taste of what's in store for his ass at the GOP convention this fall.
"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."