Delicious Teabagger Irony

[peristaltor]

Just finished Douglas Rushkoff's Life, Inc., a book that chronicles the rise of the corporation over the last few centuries. According to Rushkoff, small businesses were garnering way too much economic power near the end of the "Dark" Ages (actually a very good time to be a peasant, but that's another story) from the established royalty. To

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food for thought

[plantyhamchuk]

Wow! Thanks for posting this - looks like a very interesting read.

[l33tminion]

For additional irony on that topic, see bradhicks's lastest essay, on what the Founding Fathers thought about the prospect of armed rebellion against the federal government.

[peristaltor]

Interesting. I recall reading a very different account of the Shay's Rebellion, but since it focused on Nathanial Ward, the book might not have mentioned the act from the Washington perspective.

(Ward probably would have been the first president, had it not been for his poor health and the need for the early nation to first elect a southerner. A general from Boston, he taught Washington how not to be a stupid noob during the Boston siege, aka Bunker Hill. Before that book, I didn't know the battle went on for eight months.)