Friday, May 31, 2013
The Future of War
Those who underwent and
concluded How terrible!
Or How boring! never fit.
We must have heroes
to insure the continuance
of particular systems.
Not pantywaists
or lazy satirists.
Those who underwent and
concluded How terrible!
Or How boring! never fit.
We must have heroes
to insure the continuance
of particular systems.
Not pantywaists
or lazy satirists.
Labels: American System, chauvinism, hero, system, war
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Senator and His Critic
-Let me put it to you this way. If you're three-quarter
owner of a small company in a little town, and some
of the citizens have bought in, do you go around the
tables at the annual celebratory banquet and
insult your partners?
-So, you're corrupt.
-I swing with the system, not heroically but...
-The best Congress money can buy!
-That's glib. Money doesn't buy me but gets my ear.
-Uh huh. And then you do what the big boys whisper?
-Well that's often because they write the laws.
Ones I submit are things of beauty. Compiled by
legal geniuses, not ham-and-eggers.
-The aesthetics of treachery.
-Look, this is a burg of circling knives. To do the good I do--
and there is some...
-Accidental.
-I hafta keep one of em outa my back!
-You have many counterparts on the other side.
-But their platform is bananas. Not that anybody cares.
-Those are merely ideas. Money is not an idea. It has a palpable stink.
-Aroma is the word.
-Let me put it to you this way. If you're three-quarter
owner of a small company in a little town, and some
of the citizens have bought in, do you go around the
tables at the annual celebratory banquet and
insult your partners?
-So, you're corrupt.
-I swing with the system, not heroically but...
-The best Congress money can buy!
-That's glib. Money doesn't buy me but gets my ear.
-Uh huh. And then you do what the big boys whisper?
-Well that's often because they write the laws.
Ones I submit are things of beauty. Compiled by
legal geniuses, not ham-and-eggers.
-The aesthetics of treachery.
-Look, this is a burg of circling knives. To do the good I do--
and there is some...
-Accidental.
-I hafta keep one of em outa my back!
-You have many counterparts on the other side.
-But their platform is bananas. Not that anybody cares.
-Those are merely ideas. Money is not an idea. It has a palpable stink.
-Aroma is the word.
Labels: American System, bribery, Congress, senate
Monday, November 16, 2009
Bigtime
-Competition is the lifeblood of The American System!
-Nice speech, but how do we rig it in this particular case?
Labels: American System, competition
