Oh my

[Echewta]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101300169.html

Another media/dem attack!

[Drederick Tatum]

the drink made him do it!

[Echewta]

Tis a shame that Reagan let booze back into the White House. Carter might have had something there with all of the boozing leading to flirting with kids and taking casino chips.

[Funkaloyd]

If anything, our elected officials need more psychoactive substances.

[Documad]

I hear he won't resign so that he can continue to collect his paycheck until January. :rolleyes:

[DroppinScience]

It's good to know that Republicans are showing they're for smaller government -- by leaving office in disgrace.

Ah, good ol' Stephen Colbert :D

[SobaViolence]

why are americans, by and large, so fucking complacent?

buncha idiots...

[sam i am]

why are americans, by and large, so fucking complacent?

buncha idiots...

must be a product of the public education system :rolleyes: :p ;)

[Dorothy Wood]

why are americans, by and large, so fucking complacent?

buncha idiots...

because in the 60's people tried really hard to make a change and nothing happened. they killed off the revolutionary leaders and broke the spirit of people who had hope.

power to the people, we will rise again!


(sorry, I just watched The Weather Underground)

[Documad]

(sorry, I just watched The Weather Underground)
That was such a dreadful movie. I accidentally laughed out loud and pissed off some of the ex hippies in the audience. :rolleyes: Apparently some people who were featured in the movie were at the local premiere with me. :o

My favorite part was when they posted the reasons for the various bombings. They got more and more ridiculous as time went on.

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, it made me sad. it was pretty interesting though. also, a lot of the early stuff took place in chicago. I actually recognized a bank they trashed, I used to wait for the bus there a lot. all that misdirected passion.

it also made me sad about the war that's going on right now and how stuff like that just happens over and over and regular people are pretty much helpless to change any of it. a lady I work with is always protesting and doing activist stuff, and in the last two years I've known her, she just seems so tired and defeated because nothing has changed. but you know, revolutions don't happen in a couple of years or even 30. communication will be the key.

[Documad]

I have a more positive attitude. Amazing things happened in this country in the last 30 years. Yes, W is a nutcase but he will pay the price in how he's remembered in the long term and we've weathered nutcases before.

When you look at how things were in the mid 60s and then look at things today, it's amazing how far we've come. The civil rights and antiwar movements gave birth to the women's movement and the gay rights movement, the environmental movement, etc. Yes, we've been backsliding, but some of that is natural until there is another forward surge. We don't even notice it anymore. Some of my friends are black judges. I go to social events and see children of various races playing together (I never saw that when I was a kid outside of Sesame Street). Women get athletic scholarships. Women work as police officers. There are women fighting in wars. When I was a kid, you could smell and see polluted water in streams that are now relatively clean. My generation had to be taught to put trash in trash cans rather than throw it on the streets. Just 12 years ago, one of my best friends wouldn't come out of the closet even to me and now there are gay people on TV. The 13 year old me would have been blown away by all that.

[sam i am]

I have a more positive attitude. Amazing things happened in this country in the last 30 years. Yes, W is a nutcase but he will pay the price in how he's remembered in the long term and we've weathered nutcases before.

When you look at how things were in the mid 60s and then look at things today, it's amazing how far we've come. The civil rights and antiwar movements gave birth to the women's movement and the gay rights movement, the environmental movement, etc. Yes, we've been backsliding, but some of that is natural until there is another forward surge. We don't even notice it anymore. Some of my friends are black judges. I go to social events and see children of various races playing together (I never saw that when I was a kid outside of Sesame Street). Women get athletic scholarships. Women work as police officers. There are women fighting in wars. When I was a kid, you could smell and see polluted water in streams that are now relatively clean. My generation had to be taught to put trash in trash cans rather than throw it on the streets. Just 12 years ago, one of my best friends wouldn't come out of the closet even to me and now there are gay people on TV. The 13 year old me would have been blown away by all that.

Other than the standard W attack ;) , I agree.

Well stated, Documad...and kudos for the optimism....watch out...you'll probably be attacked for it:D ....(welcome to the club:( )

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, doc, I suppose you're right. I remember when answering machines were only for rich people.

[sam i am]

yeah, doc, I suppose you're right. I remember when answering machines were only for rich people.

I remember going to the video store with my parents and "renting" VCR's to watch movies at home...they were too expensive to buy.