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Thursday, October 11, 2001

Is the noise of the political chatter somehow comforting?

"What breed of idiots would voluntarily reduce government income at the start of a war? Beats me, but they bred enough of 'em to populate the executive and legislative branches and have some left over to publish newspapers: walking around yesterday I saw no less than five front pages that called new tax cuts an 'Economic Boost' rather than 'Suicide.'"

Bellona Times. You "might've missed confirmation of the prediction that some numb brains would soon be fumbling for a definition of 'terrorism' that excluded birth control clinic bombings. Next prediction: Congress will end up having to specifically single out anti-abortion terrorists in an amendment as 'the terrorists we're afraid of annoying,' much as sexual orientation is explicitly called out of hate-crime bills on account of too powerful a political constituency wants to hate selected sexual orientations."'

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