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Friday, December 12, 2003

Guardian: We are all nerds now
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For those of us on the left, expecting the Democrats to ride to our rescue is a lot like repeatedly sticking your wet finger in an electric socket hoping that someday you will become a light bulb. Lots of pain. No enlightenment.

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is or has sometimes been; a bookseller, geographer, poet, SF fan, & an unrepentent anarcho-syndicalist.

He lives to twit wingnuts of all stripes and thrives on their sputtering rages. His hobby continues to be writing increasingly snarkier versions of his I Told You So speech now that the revolting crimes of The Former Dear Leader and His Puppetmaster Vice-Emperor Cheney have become manifest.

He is delighted that his friends think of him as the most bloodthirsty pacifist they have ever met. He doen't give a damn what his enemies think of him.

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