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    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    GORDON SMITH GROWS HIS PEAS IN HUMAN SHIT

    Seems that Smith has been using impounded sewage on his property to irrigate his soon-to-be-frozen peas and carrots, which violates the EPA’s proscription against using human waste to fertilize crops meant for human consumption.

    I guess he’s freezing all those peas and carrots to keep them nice and fresh for the livestock. Either that, or [...]



    apropos of everything

    David Sedaris, on undecided voters:

    To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?’ To be undecided in [...]



    no longer the hero

    if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one.

    He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage:

    But I, that am not shaped [...]



    What Bush is Giving Us Tonight

    My mother used this expression, and in the thirty-seven years since she died and in the nearly fifty-nine years I’ve lived in this marvelous Capitalist wonderland and paid my taxes and been screwed by insurance companies and given numerous banks their per centages and worked as many jobs as required to close the hole and hold firm the door against the wolf of [...]



    Parties Suck, Especially Two of Them

    Most of us that have been paying attention or that have been involved in the outright “undemocracy” of party politics want to change to a better political party system.  Rob Kall, over at OpEd News, says that two things must occur to fix party politics, namely instituting instant run-off voting and equal treatment for all parties (not just the R and D parties) by [...]