@74 It's OK to rant, but not to give up hope. I look back at the half of the 20th century where I *wasn't* around, and I'm amazed that humankind survived at all, yet here we are....
When you weren't around, a lot of people went to a lot of trouble and risk to stop people like McCarthy. If we don't do the same, people like Bush and Cheney and O'Reilly will continue to subvert the government and frighten people out of their wits so they can stay in control. It's all very well to say Bush's popularity is tanking, but he's still in control of the military with time left to invade Iran; he's still got political commissars running every department and agency (you thought maybe Gonzalez was an exception?); he's already got a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court. This stuff won't go away even when he does.
How about it's OK to rant, but it's not OK to pretend there's not really anything badly wrong and to do nothing?
Sure, there's hope: if we create it.
Dune, 1965-(has that ended yet?)
Forty plus years and counting.
Sherlock Holmes, 1887-1917 (or is that 1928?)
Thirty or more years.
Allan Quatermaine, 1885-1927(?)
More than forty years.
-jsq
"Remember too that" (followed by a bald assertion without any accompanying documentation or supporting information)
"I happened to spot a chance pattern" (the same pattern the poster always reads into everything)
"By an absolute measure" (i.e., a measure that supports the poster's case)
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