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I've had it just about to here with this "patriot" shit. Did you know the 700 club makes bumper stickers? They have a whole line of "non-fiction" and propaganda but the thing that really pissed me off was this one sticker on the back of a pick up truck with a confederate flag sun shield. It was simple a restroom man icon , a large plus sign, and a restoom woman icon equalling the word "marriage." the best quip I could come up with was a simple "marriage means coed bathrooms?" But seriously...how is the parallel between America's use of communism and terrorism not obvious? Is there even a subculture anymore? It seems like "liberal" means defending the right to privacy, sexual choices, being anti-death and pro-reproductive freedom. That's not liberal to me! That's simply constitutional. Liberal is bitching about the lack of universal health care. Liberal is saying that we allow corporate responsibility to mean that they maximize shareholder return and NOT that they act responsibly. Liberal is saying that Sallie Mae will be the first building destroyed by the revolution and admitting that I'm probably going to be killed by friendly fire when it does happen.

Do you know that the only things you can't get rid of in bankruptcy are tax debt and student loans? SO here you have a federally guranteed loaner who will just loan whatever they can to whomever will take it KNOWING that they can't lose. So colleges can charge whatever they want because they can always give "financial aid." The thing about that is you leave school with debt that you will "just work for 5 years and then pay off." What that means is that we produce people who BEGIN selling out because they have no choice. Of course, this isn't what happens to everyone, but the BUSINESS of higher ed means that you have to work HARD to be anti-establishment from the time you get in. Instead of arming them, we bind their feet and chain their souls.

I sit and think that my role is to shout "these are false idols!" but who the fuck am I? Am I one of those people belittling those things I don't have so that it's okay I don't have them? If I am, does that make any of this untrue?

Rant off.

Anyway, there's a student here who apparently caught some "exotic disease" and has had subsequent shut down of her major organs. Walking around last week and breathing through a tube today. How do you explain mortality in a way that is any more convincing than "god works in mysterious ways?"

Some days I hate not being famous.

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