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“Not exactly what Ray Bradbury envisioned, but close.”

This is an enlightening article about a couple of anonymous quotes that apparently make the forwarded e-mail rounds every once in a while. I found it clicking through a Snopes page that I found when I googled a phrase that I heard from one of Rush Limbaugh’s guest hosts recently: “Professor Tyler’s definition of [...]

This article is quite melancholy, but hard to argue with.

“The America of my time is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy, in which every adult may vote and in which all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. Once a [...]

Can’t say that I blame them.

“Everything that you are about to read might be wrong. Roll Call’s annual attempt to rank the riches of Members of Congress is hampered by one fundamental flaw: It is based on the lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms, which are extraordinarily unreliable sources of information…”

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.