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"...the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of ease. It does say something about how fragile our Democracy is. You do have to wonder what a Democracy is when it comes down to a few men in the Pentagon and a few men in the White House having their way."
-Pulitzer award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh

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Surprised the hell out of myself earlier tonight by not only running an errand to Whole Foods after the first Archives night class (it having let out early), but walking over there, 'bout a mile in the frigid night air.

Not only wasn't horrible, was rather refreshing.

Go figure.