which had such an enormous effect on the thinking of the founders of the United States. Certainly the French group had a hand in it but the Empiricists of the early 18th C were what inspired the Americans AND the French, including Voltaire. Hutcheson, Smith, Hume, Millar, Reid, Ferguson.....etc. all are far more important than all the French including Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws because the French didn't offer up any concrete details about how to do things. You might as well have been reading Plato for a vague sense of the why of ideal governance.

BTW for all their political theory, it took Edmund Burke to decode the French Revolution and make sense of it. After all it was Burke who discovered that successful Revolutions come from the middle class not the peasantry.

Why is that, Gary? How is it anyone who can afford an RPG and a flag gets a pass from you as long as they assert some magical adherence to 'nationalistic separateness' except the Jews. For them, and unlike everyone else according to the blogging classes, nationalism, that is, the consent of many to form a union of shared interests and intent is inherently evil. If only they were Eskimos or Basques or Palestinians or Mau Maus or the Irish or Uzbeks or Kosovars....well you get it.

By the by, here's another semi important tome, one I highly recommend:

Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

By Humberto Fontava

(speaking of getting rid of the priests....something Che and Fidel were brutally good at.)

Which it probably is. Which makes the question moot. Stay in a bland marriage as an alternative to what, exactly? Lonliness? Everyone I know who's divorced claims that it's for something better. But they can't really picture or describe what that is let alone act on it or reach it. Seems to be six one half dozen the other.

I have a $30 Che t-shirt. Mostly I wash the Camry with it. Then I wring it out an shake my tiny fist at St. Marx for the desire for greatness but only the talent to recognize it in people such as yourself. You folks remind me of the French Communists I know. You can spit on them, tell them they smell, you can feel up their wives right before their eyes. But don't ever EVER fail to take them as seriously as they do.

"I voted for the Viet Nam war because we were mislead about intelligence".

Echo's of stupidity.

That's just the point, isn't it? Mwah mwah mwah I'm a widdle lady girl who toddled on to the internet and now the big bads mens is all mean to me. Perhaps people like you need to instead turn that around and write up a manifesto encompassing the tiny handful of things that AREN'T rape, in your mind. I bet it can fit on an index card. I'm sorry you're offended and terrifed by everything but trust me, no one wants to babysit your particular problem.

ESPN is filled with feebs and morons who should pay their writers more to come up with better sports babble-metaphor-rap speak. You're 40. Just because you're black doesn't mean you're street. It sounds lame, yo.

Next, ESPN is obsessed with race about everything because that's what keeps people watching. Pay it no mind. It's nonsense.

Hank Aaron is kind of being a dick about this. Instead of getting on camera and chanting that you definitely won't be there when he hits because you don't care about it, just shut up Hank. A lot of people cut you a lot of slack in your later years and no one could figure out why you kept playing. Rip a page from Willy Mays who's happy for Barry and who doesn't blame the White Man for not him beating Ruth. He said it was because he had to serve in the Army. So get some class, Hank. Stop being a grumpy get off my lawn you whippersnappers asshole about it.

Get your eyeful while you can, sportsfans. Because this record will stand for a long long long long time. MLB will work to penalize everyone for everything from now on and any player who has the temerity to try play past age 40 will be held up as 'suspect'. Maybe not even A-Rod will be able to stand up to it. Of course by then ESPN will be screaming that A-Rod isn't black enough to merit our attention.

I love watching a professional sport implode. Circle the mininvans, Mildred, there's gonna be a bikehelmet rodeo.

Rush - Sportscaster

Olbermann - Sportscaster

I'm waiting for the pearls of Political Wisdom from Jim Rome.

So yous better not go.

One rule for everyone else. Another rule for the evil dastardly cattle raping mind controling hooknosers. Thank you 'anon' for earning your Salon cookie street-cred today. My friends in West Africa who had to literally step over the bodies in the river the crocodiles couldn't eat will be happy you approve of how things work there.

Go figure. Never saw that happening. How 'liberal' of them. No really.

Trent Lott's job is dependant on military funding in his state. A 'change on the ground' means MORE troops in the field not fewer.

With statement such as and I quote "With overwhelming evidence of guilt" without providing any? Seems a little hysterical, a little routing out the counter revolutionary running dog lackey a little we much march comrades to save the Rodina!!! no?

That gates the number of times you use the term neoconservative in one article? Otherwise it starts to sound like the medication challenged over at C&L.

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