Best Military Industrial Complex Analogy Ever.

[bratenfrau]

I must share this line, taken from my reading (Bill Bryson's Made in America

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[cashbox]

my god, that's beautiful. he's my new favorite founding father.

[bratenfrau]

Interestingly enough (or not really very interesting, but good for the Trivial Pursuit game waged eternally in my mind), he is the Gerry after whom the term "gerrymandering" (meaning to manipulate congressional district boundaries in favor of your own party) was coined. Thank you, Wikipedia!!

[cashbox]

you know, i once knew that. (Thank you, youthful interest in history and ongoing love of cartography!) but i'm gald to have that info back in my head, 'cause it was gone daddy gone until this moment of recall.

[bratenfrau]

Gawd, you're such a fucking smartypants, I can't teach you ANYthing. :)

Ok, so edumacate me with some cartographic factoid instead. I usually stock up on my geography nerdin' at home, but the Hub was just blathering about the Minnesota shore all last night and I already knew most of that. :)

[bratenfrau]

Why in the fall?

[beigekhakis]

Yah, dat is true.

[obedient29]

Our Army is an erect penis/an assurance of domestic tranquility? So what. The Iraqi Army is come kind of tempting, well-laid vagina?

Gotta love politics. :P

[bratenfrau]

Heh. It's starting to look that way. I think the entire nation of Iraq must be our old-and-busted fucktoy at this point, giving how much dicking they've taken from our military.

Fuck the War, the military industrial complex

[usaresistance]

i like it. I also like the analogy of giving a child a toy and expecting them not to play with it... as they will.

Re: Fuck the War, the military industrial complex

[bratenfrau]

For a second there, I thought you were going to say something about giving a child an erect..... you know what, nevermind, it's too early for pedophilia. :)