Burroughs proved right again

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Tue Aug 1 08:38:52 CDT 2006


"He then set himself to throw off the restraints imposed by Congress and the Senate. He loosed innumerable crabs and other vermin in both houses. He had a corps of trained idiots who would rush in at a given signal and shit on the floor, and hecklers equipped with a brass band and fire hoses. He instituted continuous repairs. An army of workmen trooped through the houses, slapping the solons in the face with boards, spilling hot tar down their necks, dropping tools on their feet, undermining them with air hammers; and finally he caused a steam shovel to be set up on the floors, so that the recalcitrant solons were either buried alive or drowned when the Houses flooded from broken water mains. The survivors attempted to carry on in the street, but were arrested for loitering and were sent to the workhouse like common bums. After release they were barred from office on the grounds of their police records."

"The Yage Letters", William S. Burroughs
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From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
> > "whoever's deemed the least worthwhile person, they make him
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> And that's what they (the US Supreme Court) did!
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> Can you think of anyone less worthwhile than Dubya?
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