This song reflects my thoughts on the oil industry. Of course, since my car has been stolen for the second time in three years I don't have to worry as much about that. Now, my friendly insurance company tells me that I have to prove when my car was stolen. Otherwise, they won't honor my comprehensive policy. So I guess this song applies to them to. (What a racket: I have to pay insurance in Pennsylvania or lose my driver's license for three months, which has happened, but they're not compelled to act in good faith..For the record: sometimes I really really hate living in the United States. Everyday I get to feel a different industry raping me...)
"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."