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[constance]

The National Public Radio news anchor was so excited I thought she’d piss on herself: the President of the United [States] had flown his plane down to 1700 feet to get a better look at the flood damage! And there was a photo of our Commander-in-Chief taken looking out the window. He looked very serious and concerned.

That was yesterday. Today he played golf. No kidding.

I'm sure the people of New Orleans would have liked to show their appreciation for the official Presidential photo-strafing, but their surface-to-air missiles were wet.

The rest is no joke, though.

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[tofty.livejournal.com]

Do read the T. Harry Williams biography. It's an amazing and complicated book about an amazing and complicated man, one of the most comprehensive and incisive biographies ever written. All the King's Men is also really good; it's fiction, but it's extremely thinly disguised fiction.

I am not a 100%-balls-to-the-wall fan of Huey Long. But I agree that we need someone who can sustain the courage of his convictions long enough to affect a social reform. Because I agree with something violetisblue said recently, and that I'm seeing said more and more often: We can't go on like this, or we will cannibalize our own country. Or suffocate it. Or, you know, something to that effect.