COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
From Q, the nemesis of Captain Picard.
ReplyDeleteIf you think that today's American politics is bitter and polarized, wait until upscale crony capitalists of left and right who seek to tax America's impoverished workers to subsidize their zombie economic sectors collide with working-class Americans demanding labor-market protection from immigrant competitors and imports. Fasten your seat belts. Things are going to get nasty.
Looks like Texas is finally getting ready to get some rain.
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The fact is, as Kenny rogers sang:
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Being a Democracy with a two/four year election cycle, The Pendulum will Swing. The Reaganauts will win awhile, and, after the depression, the rubinauts will win awhile.
Meantime, Technology, and Science march on.
The Gambler
Such a great post I decided to do it twice. :)
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ReplyDeleteGeorge Carlin was/is? cute, but he never changed the world.
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Woody Guthrie
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ReplyDeleteLet's don't forget who we are, folks. We mess up from time to time, but we ain't cream cheese.
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ReplyDeleteIn case you ain't noticed, I'm getting drunk. :)
I Say, Jolly Good
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Baez and Travers
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
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ReplyDeleteDoc Watson might have been the Best.
Wichita Lineman
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ReplyDeleteHoly Mackerel, gut mornin, ladies, and germs. Ol Rufus got him a buzz on las night.
ReplyDeleteSlept good, though. Guess I needed a little load-shedding.
Maybe it's that Storm on the way; everyone could use a little rain, I think.
Anyways, I hope you all feel as good this morning as I do.
By the way, Bob, that was a hell of a horse last night. Quite an amazing performance. Just the way I used to do it. :)
Rufus, I'm surprised you're not kneeling over the toilet.....:)
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Too pretty a day here for that, Bob. :)
ReplyDeleteWe've got some great looking cotton, and beans over here. If Tropical Storm Don can just make it this far up, and bring us a little rain these boys might make a hell of a crop.
ReplyDeleteInstead of Blowin' in the Wind, rufus, Jerry Jeff is pissin' in it
ReplyDeleteMaking the same mistakes we swore we'd never make again.
We, also, got a better "Jobless Claims" report this morning than I expected. Don't know why; no one does. But, facts is facts. And, we needed some "Good" facts.
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ReplyDeleteAmy Winehouse dead: Family believe 'she died because she quit alcohol' - Daily Mail
Going cold turkey, in more ways than one.
Les face it, any culture that produces Joan Baez, Mary Travers, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, and Jerry Jeff Walker is probly worth savin. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, that "quittin moonshine," and replacing it with "Horse Tranquilizer" will do it to you every time. :)
ReplyDeleteGood thing about not drinkin so much anymore is it don't take much time, nor money, to get a "buzz" on. :)
ReplyDeleteWhen you see these deals conming, just know that it won't be long before I'm "passed out," and quiet.