It looks like I'm going to have to switch to the new blogger soon. Blogger is now not letting me in unless I switch, and I only managed to get into 'old blogger' this time because after I signed in and it forced me to the google sign in page (which is new), I instead went to blogger.com and there the old blogger was available (temporary hack, I'm sure). So, is everybody ready with their google ids?
"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."