the rix mix

How sad to see Al Gore on Letterman & be reminded that a great tragedy occurred when the Presidency was stolen from him. I thought then maybe we'd muddle through a few years of George W. Bush. But it turned out so much worse. 9/11, "war on terrorism," the environment, human rights, Katrina, America would have been incalculably better off with Gore in the Oval Office.

We must be grateful to the Feds for listening in on our phone calls, monitoring our internet usage, spying on our bank accounts, cutting forty-million from New York City's security funding, then with great fanfare demonstrating that the F.B.I. can nab an alleged terrorist group operating so suspiciously in plain sight that everyone in the Liberty City section of Miami knew they were screwball militarists. & note that even in the fantasies of which the leader of the group is accused of expressing, he wasn't going to blow up anything in Wyoming. CSI: Miami writers are already at work adding some meat to the plot so Horatio Caine & Eric Delko can waste these guys as soon as they've finished killing someone in Brazil. As Lt. Caine said, "We are being detoured into the land of make-believe."

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