That aulde huckster & reprobate, James van Praagh, is on as primary speaker for the American Library Association 2009 Conference. More on that, later.
Guess it’s official, the society is both post-literate and post-intelligence. Thankfully there won’t be much archæological evidence, the tapes & optical or digital media will have gracefully decayed into a thin layer of plastics & ferric oxides when they dig into the tell a millenium or so on.
There was a comment on a LJ blog about Jr Bush’s legacy: $1TN± war costs (NTM over 4,257 U.S. dead in Iraq, >662 in Afghanistan); using the Bill of Rights for toilet paper. And I used to think that the punishment for treason during wartime was hanging…
But stupid is as stupid does: being old-fashioned I think that bribery should be illegal, even when it’s called ‘lobbying’. Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere – To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus) Hang them both: panderer & whore, i.e, lobbyist & politician. That the populous has not reacted to the status quo…
cribbed from wikiwiki:
O tempora o mores! Cicero in his First Oration against Catiline “Oh the times! Oh the customs!” Cicero deplores the viciousness and corruption of his age. Cicero is frustrated that, despite all of the evidence that has been compiled against Catiline, who has been conspiring to overthrow the Roman government (NTM trying to kill Cicero), and the fact that the senate has given final approval Catiline has not yet been executed, while other conspirators were executed for less.
