Global Struggle To Keep Redneck Gas Really Cheap.

First, well, shame on you for listening to them to begin with: at this point anyone that has survived the Reality Centrifuge of the last eight years and remain inside the Dubya Tent pissing out – instead of outside pissing in -- is either a liar, a lunatic, a congenital idiot, or a co-conspirator.

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Because the “Fuck everyone but me” Republicans are every bit as much a Culture of Death as the Fundy Republicans.

The “Fuck everyone but me” are every bit as global-suicidally inclined as Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell: The only difference is in the timing.

The Christopaths want to be alive and alert when Armageddon comes, whereas the “Fuck everyone but me” Republicans want to have spent every planetary resource to live Jackie Gleason-lavish on an existential Dine-And-Dash; to slip into a double-wide grave just before the Final Tab comes due.

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No, I believe a big part of the problem is that we have no Stephen J. Gould, or not enough of them.

No Einstein. No Sagan.

Not necessarily men of genius, but gifted Explainers of Things, in the matter of science specifically, and on matters of Policy and Principle generally.

In the sciences it may be simply that emergent sciences require such a degree of specialization that practitioners are reluctant to speak about science broadly outside of their expertise.

Whatever the reason, we lack Integrators.

We lack the bright men and women who can do what Clinton used to do better than anyone else: Explain why this is related to that.

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But right now what we need more than any other single thing is to stop driving the world’s people into the arms of our enemies. To show the world that we’re not crazy and not stupid and that we don’t view the rest of the planet and the rest of the people’s of the world as expendable in the Global Struggle To Keep Redneck Gas Really Cheap.

(if i have to tell you that is driftglass then you havent been paying attention)