From the Glacier
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Archive for February, 2006

More vitriol from the glacier

February 3, 2006

I was thinking. . .
While reading some pro-Bush somewhat-pseudo-kind-of-quasi-’conservative’ drivel on what might be better called “not-so-live slightly revolting”, it occurred to me that there are several discrepancies in American policy. One revolter likes to point out that the founding fathers were not liberal enlightenment guys. Sure, why not. I’ll buy it. But if [...]

The state of the union

February 1, 2006

My fellow ‘Mericans! This year in ‘Merica we have stayed much the same. The status quo will not be overthrown. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. We even see now the lowest savings rate among our subjects since 1933! We have unnaturally force interest rates so low so that we can, as [...]