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... Rawnsley also quotes a former Conservative cabinet minister who says he regards George Bush as "a child running around with a grenade with the pin pulled out." Right now, the lack of confidence Bush inspires in our allies is the world's single best hope for peace.

An anti-war protest marching on the Vegas strip makes no exception…

However, I think you'd agree that he is sometimes possessed by pure evil...

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

-Martin Luther King | Where We Are Going

Cab drivers' grey matter enlarges and adapts to help them store a detailed mental map of the city.

BILL MOYERS: So, here we are a few days away from that decision and possible war. What do you think is going to happen?

HOWARD ZINN: I don't know. I'm a historian. Historians don't know what's going to happen. They guess like everybody else. I think-- we'll probably go to war. I'm not sure. I hold out-- always hold out a hope that-- the President will look around and think there's not enough enthusiasm in the country for the war. And maybe when they see the casualties, even a small number of casualties-- maybe my-- and then this is the way he'll think about it. Maybe my political fortunes will decline instead of rise. Maybe I'll be blamed instead of praised. I'd like to think that that's a possibility. But I think it's only a possibility. But you act on the basis-- not of probabilities, but of possibilities. If you act against war, even if you think that probably we'll go to war, because you know that in the past, there have been times when something only seemed possible and yet it came to pass.

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Tam's apt photos...

Also, there's a fifty fifty chance that my dog is Satan. Well, maybe not Satan, but super evil...

If humans were meant to work, why would they have invented the matinee movie?

Here’s a copy of Eisenhower's famous farewell address: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

and an excerpt...

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

…Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.

…We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

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