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Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: January 22nd, 2010 09:34 pm (UTC)Some commentage at truthout.org
This is SUCH massive bad.
The constitutional basis of this opinion is one of the REAL problems with the whole "Corporations as Legal Persons" concept. Can anyone say, "Washington for Sale?" It seriously needs to be revisited. In the Media Age, the staggering costs of running a successful campaign mean that wealthy corporations and other special interests have the power to literally purchase any election they please.
Maybe they'll pass a law that requires politicians to wear sponsorship logos like NASCAR race drivers if their contributions go over a threshold amount!
It will be very interesting to see how congress will respond to this horrifically unbalanced decision.
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Date: January 25th, 2010 08:09 pm (UTC)Like the little whores they are-- peddling every corporation they can to get funds for the next election. Promising the corporations anything they want in exchange for that money. It'll be a feeding frenzy. You can bet they've got names, names, names all lined up for this bit of mana from heaven.