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" A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering. "
Lie
Fear
Culture
" A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. "
Much
Budget
How
" Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. "
Cancer
Wolf
Stand
" A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about. "
American
I Am
People
" Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds. "
Democracy
Truth
Integrity
" Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. "
Bad People
Behavior
Bad
" From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs. "
Present
Path
People
" If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today. "
News
Fox
Today
" If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits. "
Point
Capable
Cheat
" I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier. "
Know
Civility
Bet
" In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones. "
Dressed
Men
Women
" I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow. "
Nerves
Come
Very
" It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them. "
Things
Seems
Easy
" I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child. "
Little
Universe
Fan
" I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success. "
Happy
Good
Success
" My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience. "
Experience
Me
Time
" No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide! "
Voting
Political
Education
" Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive. "
Until
Move
Extremism
" Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman. "
People
Media
Minds
" The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase. "
Personality
People
Easy
" The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches. "
Game
Become
Fact
" The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives. "
Math
Say
People
" The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions. "
Actions
Consequences
Seems
" The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way. "
Society
Up
Rules
" The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! "
Snake
People
Voting
" The right-wing just loves making a big entrance. "
Big
Entrance
Right-Wing
" The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become. "
Become
Republican
Party
" We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience. "
Fight
Experience
Great
" We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. "
War
Innocent
Game
" What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society. "
Expectations
Society
Democracy
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