[WorkingClassFilth]

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD ALERT!

Evidence suggests that a high percentage of politicians suffer from a mysterious and tragic syndrome that erodes the brain and then the spine. This disorder may also infect others in positions of authority - religious, secular and otherwise. The primary route of transmission is suspected to be through favor gaining behaviors, particularly close oral-anal contact, with other syndrome sufferers.

An increasing body of evidence suggests that rarified political atmospheres far removed from the risk exposures of normal living contribute heavily to an individual's susceptibility. Initial symptoms include a growing atrophy of the right brain functions and a progressive, leftward lean in stance and action. In extreme cases, the patient may exhibit a range of symptoms from drooling, vacant staring and severely impaired brain function to more the advanced pathology of violent protestations and paranoid delusions.

The only known protective measures are to resist the impulse to moralize or legislate from an emotional basis. In addition, avoid close associations with those known to suffer from the syndrome and to get plenty of exposure to antigens in the outside environment through daily living in the real world

[livius]

Talk about a group unwilling to learn from history! And thanks to the massification of non-education, this blindness has spread to every corner of our land.

Tonight the city council of my town, Gainesville, FL, is planning to vote for a "peace resolution." Naturally, I'm planning on showing up and telling them what I think, although my main point will be simply that it is totally inappropriate for a group of elected officials, paid with my tax dollars, to use their position as a forum for expressing their personal opinions about something entirely outside of their competency and the purpose for which they were elected.

I also plan to mention Chamberlain, but sadly enough, I suspect that most of them will merely wonder what basketball has to do with international affairs.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[livius]

Ping to LadyDoc! After your masterful discourse on Chamberlain on another thread yesterday, I thought you might find this interesting.

[Rocko]

Fascinating.