Likely you read too many Frank Herbert Dune books.

As to Delphi,a Scientific American article argued for benzene being present in the gases percolating up through two crossed faults that underlie the site, and the oracle's room was below ground level, as well as poorly ventilated.

As to crazies, Rick Perlstein has been pointing out their previous flareups, and we only need to consider the millenarium panics in the Middle Ages, or during Plague years. Ignorance is common and persistent, since not everyone needs to be informed and smart. Other people figure stuff out, find the travel routes, learn how to preserve food, make the wheels and boats,, and so on. All populations include dopes, because they can get along OK. And it's not really genetics, although there is some intelligence range. That talent is considered roughly 50% heritable.

It's the lumpen parents that don't stir their stumps to stimulate the kids, by educating, entertaining, enabling, and such. Think about all those horrible parents in fairy tales.

As peoplechoose asks, is it easier to notice such now? I think it's always been known, but we recently forgot, falling into a fallacy of thinking everyone has the same capability and interest in knowing the world.

Great post, DD. As usual, your brainy brain, your highly entertaining brain, taught me a thing or two.

But Armey? Sane? When?

Not here:

http://ramonasvoices.blogspot.com/2009/01/two-little-boys-sittin-in-mud.html

I guess that is where I fall down intellectually.

First, C-STreet people really do not believe in anything internally. Their way is the way of leadership. The peasants must be shown the way and adopt it internally. AGain, Pat Robertson praying for Supreme Court Justices to die or voicing their concern over taxation of off shore corporations has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ for chrissakes!!!!

Phil Graham, as far as I am concerned, believes in nothing. He learned how the 'big guys' were making money by the bucketfull and figured out how to 'get in the game.' How can I make as much money as fast as possible and pay the smallest amount of taxes. I really do not believe that phil believes IN ANYTHING EXCEPT for himself, his, and his friends who will reciprocate in kind.

Armey would sometimes sound sane to me. But he got out in order to make as much money as fast as possible and pay as little taxes as possible. I do not think he believes in anything anymore.

Now Chris Matthews who is disappointing to me says that he refuses to judge people's intentions in the sense that he figures you cannot prove what people are thinking or feeling. So Tom Delay gets on tv with him.

WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS FELON DOING ON CABLE TV? and of course Delay lies for his five minutes of fame today....one lie after another. Delay does not believe in anything and never did.

I decided Gingrich is just a manic depressive so that he looks at times like he believes in something...but that has to do with his personality disorder.

I have no problems judging people's souls...it is so easy sometimes.

Nixon is complicated to me. I have much more admiration for him these days. I will probably do a meaningless blog on that subject or a series. But he was a man with intents and aims and a view of America and he got messed up over his resentments. His adieu is marvelous, just marvelous. You should not hold resentments, they will hurt you more than the person you resent. How best to describe himself with the enemies lists. He would break down emotionally. Armey, Delay, Graham...they cannot really break down emotionally...they are incapable of it.

I am hitting delay tomorrow with an emphasis on Sweeney. Sweeney is the most fun...hahahahahahaha

You are asking for a philosophical discussion, for me, only human questions arise. You cannot look at an economy where so much comes from the government to industry and then claim you are libertarian. As all the money ends up in the oligarchy's coffers, to stand back and say c'est la vie is ludicrous. Like a guard at a concentration camp just looking on and thinking, hey other people make these decisions, I just follow orders.

I find that an odd translation of war. If we go to war to preserve the country I translate that as what is good about the nation and to assure we can continue to honor the rights of all citizens equally. Going to war doesn't infer any special right or privilege on those who fought. That is, not if they did it in the truest sense of patriotism. When I was called in 1967 I went proudly and was honored to serve my country.

If anything the experience, for me anyway, sharpened the notion of defending the rights of every American. I don't think those who didn't make it back would like it very much if they knew where we are today. They may not have been so willing had they thought Wall Street would end up stealing from the entire country and become exempt from honoring the equality of all citizens and violate the societal moral code we theoretically live by.

The same goes for the Jeff Sessions or Chuck Grassleys of the country. Frankly, I am deeply offended they are U.S. senators. I've lived in NC, MS, Fl and AZ and others and cannot figure out how the people of those states selected their representatives. I can't honestly say I found the people of those states to be bad people in any way. They may be short on education and social awareness but the only way they elect the people they do is because the persons who position themselves as leaders flat out lie to those citizens. I harbor no ill will against any of the the persons in the so called red states. But I do take issue with their politicians who so callously take advantage of them. To me that ethical and moral violation transcends anything in our legal code. This reminds me of Ensign getting up there and saying he didn't break any laws. What he doesn't say is he trampled all over any ethical or moral codes and probably crossed over the line when it comes to separation of church and state and did so surreptitiously.

If the entire citizenry conducted itself like our congress does, we would be in far more dire shape than we already are. The only thing holding this country together is mainstream Americans grasping for dear life the values they intuitively know are the ones they want their children to have. And decidedly not the ones proposed by the actions of so many of our elected officials.

Stimulating for the minority, a new reality show premiers
tonight on the cable window called Dancing with the Tzars.

Dick Armey and Tom Delay will foxtrot with authority for the minority with a curious rightwing backstep - alternating longer slower walking mis-steps with shorter quicker running mis-steps, usually with four beatings for the bartender.

Codeword for tonight on twitter will be “FU” for Tom, Dick and Scary.

Icarus or Platos' man?

Thankee kindly, sir. I shall wear it at the Freshman Convocation Saturday (yes, Saturday).