that some poor mugs, thinking they are journalists and are actually political propagandists, are cracking open this mockery masquerading as news. Mistakes are one thing, but deliberate deception for political purposes -- no matter how grand the tradition in American history -- is really quite unacceptable.
Remember Russia?
Remember the Reich?
Remember Orwell's 1984?
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana (1905), Reason in Common Sense, volume 1 of The Life of Reason by way of Edmund Burke's (1729-1797) statement, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Read Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil. Now.
I'm tired of praying for the dead.
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