Bits and Pieces

BLOG, FEBRUARY 25, 2008
I’m living in a place where there is nothing taller than a silo or a grain elevator. Those are the skyscrapers.
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Here I am watching the spectacle of Pearl Harbor (the movie Tora Tora Tora). One of the biggest organizations even known by man, the US government screws up in every possible way. In the meantime, I’m dealing with the Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and I’m watching this movie now because they can’t keep track of $570 of my money. And people want governments and big companies, industrial champions, to direct our affairs and solve our problems? What? Are you psychotic?
Every time someone says the government should do this or that, or the government in tandem with big business should do this or that or that big business has to do this for us, we should simply ask the question if they have ever had to deal with the DMV or the government or the phone company or your bank about anything. How fun was that?
The first thing I want to know is how come the Japanese look so elegant and admirable and brilliant and insightful and they still lost the war? The margins of history appear to be three aircraft carriers and fuel bunkers.
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I have to say that on one level, Lisa and Bart appear to be the analogy between Barack and Hillary. It’s not because Barack is bad or idealist, but it does often look like that. As one person put it, she could have said she gave a $100.00 cheque to everyone in the room and people would have yawned. If he said he had taken it back from them, they would have cheered and fainted.
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The political science spectrum of parties and ideologies is a false model. It runs from left to right as a single line, with the far left being on one side and the far right being on the other. The moderates or centrists are in the middle. I think it’s more like a circle, with the far left and the far right meeting at one side of the circle and the moderate leftists and rightists and the centrists being on the other side. All the variations between them fall in the circle. It would be like a circle with the opposite points being far similar then we ever thought.
There are the New Democrats and the Reform Party who are in the quarters. Reagan Republicans or the McGovern Democracts would also be there.