Wow, you are dumber then you post.

Good job!

Well, if I was out there strip mining the wealth of the former middle class, I would know that eventually they would catch on and take notice. Boy, will they be pissed.

I'd make sure there was a fall guy or two ready to take the blame so I could squeeze out the last bits before moving on. That's why knuckleheads here call Bush a progressive.

That's capitalism, baby. It's how we roll. There's even money to be made as head cheerleader of the oppressed.

I enjoyed the older Paglia stuff as well. So it makes me wonder WTF happened? We've had some discussions on that on FB. Some say it's all in the narcissism, which is where Sarah comes in. It's true that there are big egos and self absorption involved, but there is the ineffable interplay of talent and creativity as well. I could mention that to not respect the muse and her inner wellspring is a bad idea; to attempt subjugation leads only to wandering in a dry and barren land.

Perhaps it is that performance art that is too self consciousness of itself degenerates. Any remaining authenticity turns to trans fat, leaving the mind bloated and fatigued.

Methinks the current set of Palin and Paglia fans have more a taste for the deep fried.

In reality all wealth is created by one's own efforts [...] --a nation harms itself when it tries to create equal outcomes for individuals by taking from one and giving to another.

I make my living creating things, so I have certain prideful opinions on the topic. It is true that society currently values my contributions more than others in terms of financial renumeration, but that 'wealth' doesn't exist in isolation. Nor does it mean that other, less remunerated occupations aren't essential.

The rich can travel to Paris or Hawaii only because of the efforts of a vast number of people. We should respect that work and those people. Saying that people who work hard all their lives should have health care, a modest retirement and viable educational opportunities for their children is not asking for equal outcomes. It's just good, intelligent business.

The muse may have whispered in my ear when I was a lad, or perhaps it was the fae that came to take my heart away.

But I was comp sci and philosophy while it lasted.

But you make me wonder if it is a curse or a blessing to have missed out on the modern analysis, construction and deconstruction of literary thought, or at least to have put it off. Very noisy. Perhaps that clichéd 'sound and fury'.

Rather to listen and wait as the words roll in as waves that crash upon the beach. Not to make clocks or tear apart the living looking for secrets, but to set them free, to let them live. To be.

But I digress.

Palin is not the only Republican to bash the housing agencies. She is, however, the only one to expressly link the trail to the Fed -- as she did in her Hong Kong address. That's downright McKinleyistic. I loved it!

Ron Paul was saying similar shit in February. That makes the above statement sloppy, ignorant, or bearing false witness. Perhaps all of above.

The idea of deregulation combined with bad interest policy, ignorance and greed leading to unfavorable outcomes is not a major revelation.

Palin is a copy cat.

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I was trying to reach back for some of that old school curse mongering. Not entirely up to snuff, of course. It's amazing how all the bad drives out the good. Haven't read Spencer in quite awhile. Maybe that's the ticket.

Hard to keep up when these threads are so empheral.

Then I will never call you Sir Hucks-a-lot or anything else in the urban patois.

But you are the learned dude here. In your lengthy examination of dusty papri and the skin of goats, I am sure you have learned to scry the omens and portents and have squeezed the entrails of fate many a time.

Palin is no longer fully human. She is Symbol and Celebrity now, a mystical offering, no longer bound by the rational ways of mankind.

We tarry for only a moment. Seen only for a second; we're a film noir protagonist in a raincoat who pauses under a street light to light a smoke on a dark and stormy night before walking off camera.

But why stick with only one battlefield, no matter how famous and how many remains of damn Yankees inhabit it? Let us reach into the dustbin of our historical recollection and view the human condition as an eternal battlefield rife with express elevators to glory, a mere prelude to Ragnarok. Why Rapture why you can Viking?