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I had a dream that Coleman came back.
To help.
Because I needed it. He took on different forms, and I didn’t recognize him at first. But when I did, it was good.

Because if I had heard it I probably would have collapsed in elation.

Thanks to remedial for the link.

Big blue sign on highway 52 reads:

Concentrate on Driving

Fail.

“For forty years or more there has not been a President, Republican or Democrat, who has not talked against government interference and then supported measures adding more interference to the huge collection already accumulated.”

— “The Myth of Rugged American Individualism,” a 1931 Harper’s essay by Charles Beard

More here Spend the Bailout Money on the Middle Class

Two weeks after the Republican convention, America seems to be hellbent on repeating the 1972 election. Forget about the “sunny uplands” of post-partisan politics. The American electorate is still trapped in Nixonland: a land where Democrats and Republicans exchange endless gibes about who despises whom, where simmering class and regional resentments trump all other political considerations and where the airwaves crackle with accusations about lies and counter-lies…Mr McCain’s running-mate, Sarah Palin, is a Nixonian fantasy come true, perfectly designed to create a cycle of accusation and counteraccusation.

–The Economist September 20th, 2008