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Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Decline and fall

Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom.
By Michelle Goldberg

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  • Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:02 AM

    The Sheep Look Up

    is a book by Phillip K. Dick that makes these exact points. It was either at the beginning or the end of the book where 2 Brits are conversing and one says something like "Can you believe the fires in America are still burning and we can still smell it over here?"

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

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