Promethium Wrote:
I was expecting a serious political reply and got that from you. It did make me laugh pretty hard, although I don't want to know if it is a real rumor you heard from some political insider.
There was a rumor. I started the rumor, but yeah, there's a rumor.
I don't really know enough about The Interior Ministry or presidential appointments to comment seriously, but I will tell you I think you are on to something about people trying to salvage their reps by running away, and FAST from l'il Georgie Boy. You know, like say, The Entire Republican Caucus in the House?
I am also reading an LBJ bio and I am at the height of the Depression, and what Hoover does, and the way he responds is almost exactly like W.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)