Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
I have a fundamental inability to credit him personally with anything approaching genius. Except in the sense where like my dog can pick the worst spot possible to take a dump during a walk... maybe right in front of a store or on the only lawn with people looking at it, so I have to clean it up. That's a kind of genius.
There is a reason you do what you do, and I do what I do
I was crediting his HANDLERS with genius. And if you kow the way they spin it, and the way people just eat it up, well you can start to understand why politics can be defined as the art of controlling your environment.
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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)
