[CrackMonkey] Lindsey Graham

[Mike Goldman]

Bob Bernstein wrote:

> By voting you get to enjoy the wonderful sense of having been *collectively*
> passed by. You get to be one of the gang, and leave behind your adolescent
> infatuation with being different, or somehow exempt from membership in the
> polis that gives you life.

I was a politically active adolescent.  I outgrew it.

> You're on the bus with the rest of us bozos. Why delude yourself via
> intricate games of logic (note how this thread has quickly degenerated into
> that circle jerk) that you are not really here with everyone else?

dei jitfa jufra

> One enters the monastery not to get away from everyone else, but to be
> closer to them.

I think I must now go meditate on the wildebeest.