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For the record, this is in Tilted Politics, not Found on the Net, so please treat it as such.
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Anyone else see anything wrong with spending more on military than every other thing combined? The Army gets $40 billion more than the entire Department of Education. (What is that? Something like 75% more funding?)
What's up with that? (I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question yet.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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