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3am just rolled up into my chi town pad, tipped a cabbie $3 so he'd give me his indian music tape. pretty rocking mostly indian love songs that i dont understand at all. peace and love to my peeps.

I also just want to point out the difference between socialism and communism. socialism is a property theory...no private property, only "the people's property" i.e. social property i.e. socialism. communism pretty much is socialism (no private property) + a form of government (e.g. a worker's council) to make decisions. Both are thoroughly beautiful on paper and equally disastrous in reality.

Bad stuff happens, and like Big Debe pointed out, government can be surprisingly incompetent. That was actually the design of the founding fathers, who distrusted government. It's kind of ironic that gridlock is essentially the best form of goverment (churchill, the genius who made his martini's with vodka and a "look at" the vermouth, said something like democracy was the best of the worst (i.e. govt in general is the worst)).

I say be happy with what we have. We're privileged to be sitting around in air conditioned rooms arguing about what's right and what's wrong on our computers that have broadband internet access. as the french say c'est la vie; such is life.

I lastly want to add that i'm happy to be talking with my old friends again.