Kewlies.

The PMRP put on another successful performance of Chicken Heart at Arisia; I got to help (covered for a sick live FX person). I got to, among other things, do a rather crucial schlrrurrrrp...

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"There's basically two principles that define the Bush administration policies: stuff the pockets of your rich friends with dollars, and increase your control over the world. Almost everything follows from that. If you happen to blow up the world, well, you know, it's somebody else's business. Stuff happens, as Rumsfeld said."
-Noam Chomsky

Leadership used to (sooooo many moons ago, grasshopper) be a meritocracy. Perhaps we do deserve whatever we get for letting warped knuckleheads squirm their way into positions of power to begin with. I mean, they used to give some value for the money, kwim?

My God, we've been too big for way too long; the bureauocracy's too immense.

I think we need to go back to tribes again. As an extension of that, countries shouldn't be above a certain size.

Notice how the Soviet Union broke back up into manageable little nations. No, they weren't together as a republic for as long as we have been. Your point?

Did you know that Finland literally elects their president by direct popular vote?