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i love quotes, real of fictional, from eighteenth century historians who assumed they had worked out a natural arc to history--nothing to be done kids, its just the curve of Things--why bother worrying, really, since the future is already ordained. pretty funny stuff on the surface, totally obsolete conceptually...but hey, why not cite it again? it's like reading an old joke.
on the matter at hand:
what is at stake in the election has been all but obscured behind an enormous steaming mound of crap....impoverished discourse, impoverished conversations..a slide into competing versions of nothing-but-spin and away from providing any basis for debate.
you see its lovely steam wafting into here all too often.
if i didnt have even more onerous tasks to avoid at the moment, i would not be here at all until after this farce of an election is over.
yes, this is quite a model of democratic process we have here in the states.
it is surely something to be proud of.
on the other hand, that the election is ultimately about faction rotation within the oligarchy does not mean that one faction is not preferable to the other.
so here's hoping that bush and the mayberry machiavellians start making retirement plans next week.
but my money is on the red sox.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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