I *did* vote, *last time*! And not for Dubya.
Me thinks we've got GERD: GEorge Reflux Disease. I especially like the "framing" light-grey ghost of a 1950s modern-design TV set, with "rabbit ears". Those were the days: When Americans knocked off leftist regimes and installed right ones to stop dominos from falling. We weren't whiners, we were winners! Except when our U2 got shot down. Maybe that was where all our troubles started? Didn't Gary Powers have a cyanide capsule he should have eaten in remembrance of Thee? And Charles van Doren got the answers right but, like the people to whom John Beresford Tipton gave a millions dollars, something went wrong. A million dollars was worth something back then. A generation of young American airmen had recently shoughed off their wings to live in Levittown. But their cars were about to sprout tail fins, the better to stop more than go in traffic jams on the L.I.E. (N.b.: See the movie if you can!) Women didn't have to work to enable the family to keep up a minimally middle class life style, but many of them had found "mother's little helper" (my mother had an affair with Virginia Gentleman -- "Bottled in Bond"). Lucky Strikes were cigarettes and we learned to "Duck and cover". Did Clark Kent have a micronite filter? I do remember that once Superman got his man by getting the Naval Observatory to speed up their clock so that the malfeasant (No, I don't think it was Kenny Lay...) emerged from his Superman-proof box a couple minutes before the statute of limitations expired.... I never forgot how Truth, Justice and The American Way triumphed that day! One day Philco came out with a TV set in which the picture tube got outside the box.... George was growing up somewhere back there. The best was still to come! It still is! Stay tuned! \brad mccormick Ray Evans Harrell wrote: > > In the spirit of Whining (original that is from the Lucky Duckies). > > REH > > http://www.dubyadubyadubya.com/ -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
