Because irony should be savoured, the same week in which we reminisce about how it was bankruptcy that ended the former Soviet Union, A semi-literate US President is announcing plans to build the most expensive Presidential library to date.
Come to think of it, what was the final price tag on this guy's re-inaugural ball? Why are the least deserving of it so consistently addicted to pageantry?
Besides, why have a Presidential library at all if your going to seal the goddamn records as he did from his first administration. What's he going to put in the library, a bunch of "top secret" stamps over all the records?
I should be flabbergasted by the hubris and hypocrisy coming from this dink, however, I'am not.
"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."