Recharged

[chaptal]

What a great feature last night at WB. campana was outstanding. I sat, mouth agape at his connections of random that ultimately made perfect sense. So if you see me spouting "Bob Dole", "Larry King, Whore", or musing about faking noctural emissions - it's an earworm

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"I see Rudy G. went after other people the way Jim Rhodes went after the hippies right before Kent State. Never has it been a worse time in this country to be different. It's time to start hitting back."

I agree with you on the odiousness of Rudy, and the hitting back part. But I'm not sure it's worse of now to be different than it was in 1970. Gay rights, feminism, lives outside of the nuclear family and plenty of other social issues have progressed considerably since then.

[chaptal]

This is about McCain, his lockstep approach to the last eight years of a blown out economy, national debt that has risen, foreclosures, dumbing down, inflation, and his age and overall health. No more backing away and sympathy to the stock answer of 'well he was in the Hanoi Hilton for five and a half years' whenever he's pressed with a question.

[transistorblast]

Well, yes, I agree. But at the same time, more average Americans have tatoos and attend conventions dressed up in fantasy costumes than ever before. :)

(Seriously, though, everything you mention is a problem, but I think intolerance is less of a problem than it probably was in 1970)

[chaptal]

The furries have not killed America!

I think this country's leaders refusing to have any curiosity about the world outside their borders has led to many problems that have trickled down to the general population. It's not necessarlity intolerance, but pride in being ignorant.

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Yeah, but that is our leaders. Not us. When you have kids from the midwest downloading Japanese anime *without* subtitles to create their own translations, superior to the commercially released American version (and, yeah, this happens), and film buffs from across the country debate the merits of Hso Hsou-hsein and Wong Kar-Wao movies on message boards, and kids download 60's Swedish freakbeat rarities from Soulseek, you have to figure American insularity (for the general public) isn't as bad as it used to be.

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Sure, the kids may be looking out from their own basements when they download but I have seen people around my age cringe at the thought of new technology or a subject outside of their own borders. What I saw and heard at the Hilltop library for six years formed too much of it for me. This happened in the city. Get outside of the city, which has voted blue for years, and it becomes even worse.