RTP-area local music and culture

[bendy <bendyatlostpladotnet AT example.org>]

grady AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> You gotta be able to drive a humvee while
> packet-radio-networking a laptop and navigating via GPS in a blinding 
> sandstorm.

Add in *while tailgating* and you've described the skill-set of a really 
annoying MBA from Phoneix.


 I'm not saying that we don't need *something* to both reacquaint the
> Youth of Today with the ideals of democracy, and/or to keep our public 
> institutions accountable to the public.

institutions accountable to the public- that's what I'm dreaming about...


 But to make such a thing
> mandatory & universal would cost more than converting our healthcare 
> system over to universal single-payer coverage, and require more 
> infrastructure, and we live in an era of Smaller Government, remember?

You crush my little dreams. Our government has become so much smaller 
lately. I guess dispelling the newspeak and doublespeak has to come 
first. But there doesn't seem to be much interest in that.

bendy