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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (56714)10/2/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I just spent a couple of days in Manila, and I seem to have missed a rousing political argument. I did manage to get to one of the only real bookstores in the country, though, and picked up, among other things, a recent Hunter S. Thompson monologue on US politics. Much gibberish, as expected, but also some very interesting observations. And I have to admit he had Bill's number from the very beginning.

I liked this one:

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty, and they do lie and cheat and steal - like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it. That is addictive thinking. That is politics - especially in Presidential campaigns. That is when the addicts seize the high ground. They care about nothing else. They are salmon, and they must spawn.

I rather liked that.
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