I returned from a pleasant sojourn in Canada late last night. Saw the burned-out hulk of one of the structures set aflame by Seattle's mad arsonist (7 fires in 6 hours). I only just an hour ago saw the supposedly alarming headlines about Al Qaeda getting set to blow up banks.
People are nuttin' up in these early dog days of été. But to quote the once and future editor of the National Sports Desk: "When the going gets weird, the Weird turn Pro."
"Yes sir, we are coming around to some bold visions now, but my time is running out. Next week, I will tell you what happens in America if Kerry loses this election, along with the current odds on whether there will be an election this year. Okay. Mahalo."
"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."