Which Are You?

"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still, and pursue the same object. The last appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all." - Thomas Jefferson

The thing is, in America, even the aristocrats have to pretend, at least in public, to be democrats. And some might even think they are. But by their actions ye shall know them.

Stirling Newberry FTW

Everybody who gives a crap about politics should go read this post by Sterling Newberry. It has a great summation of three of the main problems with the current reactionaries in charge, and the kinds of things liberals should be doing to fix America, and at the same time defeat the reactionaries. And they're the same kinds of things we want to be doing ANYWAY.

The Union of Purpose: A Dime's Worth of Difference (Okay, so the title's a little awkward.)

Recursive Dreams

My dreams are starting to become recursive. I had a dream where something I wrote on LJ for some reason became mass-copied and posted all over like on Usenet and stuff, sometimes without my name, sometimes with key words replaced, like most memes. I don't remember what, though. Then I woke up and could remember that and was half-convinced it was something I'd actually written, but I couldn't remember what it was that was so brilliant then either. Though in my dream I remember reading it. So then after I woke up I ended up going back to my high school in Pennsylvania, that I haven't seen in more than a decade, and was in the library and had to stop an earthquake, because that was just a dream too. Then I woke up for reals. But I had a dream in a dream. I wonder if I had a dream in that dream in a dream and couldn't remember it?

Seriously, what the hell, brain? At least next time tell me what the totally awesome thing I wrote was, so I can actually write it, 'k?

Art Imitates Parody

So, there's this thing called The Bible Experience: The New Testament, which is apparently a "fully dramatized version" of most of the New Testament. Okay, fine, that's not really a bad idea.

But the thing that caught my eye about it? "A cast of more than 200 stars, including Blair Underwood (Jesus), Samuel L. Jackson (God), Angela Bassett (Esther), Denzel Washington (Solomon), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Judas), and many others..."

Principal Firebrush is for reals!

Another Quote

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." -- Simone Weil