In These Times

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• • 16 Dec 05
  • 7:19 pm

  The above article is obviously guesswork (although in my opinion fairly accurate) on the part of Mr. Vonnegut. I would extend what he has written even farther: in our government these days almost everything is done by guessers, and the guessers themselves are no longer informed, controlled, or even elected by educated persons but entirely by other guessers. Though you may not have heard of me, Gregore Salmon--since my blogs have been up till now only available as filler in pornographic internet sites--my studies conclude that every bit of law in Washington is controlled by only about forty people, themselves all …

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• • 16 Dec 05
  • 8:51 pm

  The forty are composed of an equal mixture of Earthlings, Tralfamadorians, Peacekeepers, Shadows and a strange race that propel themselves about mainly by farting. (As far as can be known at this point, there are no Vulcans amongst the forty.) So, they are probably quintapartisan, if such a term exists Several of the forty indeed are troubled by those who continue to ignore their "no thinking" signs and have proposed a reverse-psychological approach of erecting "no guessing" signs instead.

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