"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

Thomas Jefferson (from a January 1816 letter to Colonel Charles Yancy, per Bartlett's Familiar Quotations).

By Mark Drolette: The individuals who are right now destroying America and its values as set forth in the Constitution (remember that thing?) are not people like Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, terrorists, detainees who "hate our freedoms," or even the French.

Unh-uh. America's most dangerous enemies, next to those who comprise the current fascist administration, are those who support the current fascist administration and find its malapropism-spewing front man cuter'n sea monkeys and besides, dontcha know that being smart is only for them smarty-pants smart people?

What's the literacy rate like in Costa Rica?

Yup, that's right: I'm saying American citizens who don't fully and actively oppose the utter destruction the Bushies are wreaking upon America and the world are just as bad as the wreakers. After all, you're either fer 'em or agin 'em, right?

To potential right wing flamers: Save it. I truly do not give a shit what you think. After spending far too many hours composing facts-filled, solidly documented e-mails in good-faith efforts to respond to whatever arguments I thought were being made (usually very difficult to decipher, but oh lord, I tried), I realized long ago that my sincere attempts to engage in "dialogue" were decidedly one-sided. Subsequent return messages (if any) would typically eruditely begin: "Listen, you ignorant, naive, Marxist, Saddam/Osama-loving, atheistic, America-hater: Bill Clinton never/always/would've/didn't..."

Read more. I like the line:
Bill Clinton
never/
always/
would've/
didn't...

HAHA.