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."

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Everything is Going to be Just Fine

32 comments:

  1. From Q, the nemesis of Captain Picard.

    If 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.

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  2. Looks like Texas is finally getting ready to get some rain.

    Tropical Storm something or other seems to be on its way.

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  3. The fact is, as Kenny rogers sang:

    Every Hand's a Winner, and Every Hands' a Loser

    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

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  4. Such a great post I decided to do it twice. :)

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  5. George Carlin was/is? cute, but he never changed the world.

    Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie

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  6. Let'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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  7. Seeger and Baez

    In case you ain't noticed, I'm getting drunk. :)

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  8. Baez and Travers

    You gotta go down to Mississippi, You gotta go By Yourself

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  9. Holy Mackerel, gut mornin, ladies, and germs. Ol Rufus got him a buzz on las night.

    Slept 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. :)

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  10. Rufus, I'm surprised you're not kneeling over the toilet.....:)

    FTIOH

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  11. Too pretty a day here for that, Bob. :)

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  12. We'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.

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  13. Instead of Blowin' in the Wind, rufus, Jerry Jeff is pissin' in it

    Making the same mistakes we swore we'd never make again.

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  14. 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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  15. Amy Winehouse dead: Family believe 'she died because she quit alcohol'
    - Daily Mail


    Going cold turkey, in more ways than one.

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  16. Les face it, any culture that produces Joan Baez, Mary Travers, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, and Jerry Jeff Walker is probly worth savin. :)

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  17. Yeah, that "quittin moonshine," and replacing it with "Horse Tranquilizer" will do it to you every time. :)

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  18. Good thing about not drinkin so much anymore is it don't take much time, nor money, to get a "buzz" on. :)

    When you see these deals conming, just know that it won't be long before I'm "passed out," and quiet.

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