Spin Dry

When someone paraphrased a brief bit of the following, I was compelled to look it up. It's a quote from a play by Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Artuo Ui, a parable about Hitler's rise to power. I think it's something we all need to keep in mind because, even though it's looking more and more like W and company are going down in the fall, it doesn't mean we should think their kind has gone away forever. If anything, we should be prepared for the inevitable that will begin on January 20th -- the second President John Kerry is sworn into office, the far-right whackos will try to blame him and Bill Clinton for the economic shambles and ruined foreign policy he will most certainly inherit. Let's fight them now with everything we've got, but also be prepared to tell them exactly where to shove it in 2005.

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If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce.
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

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