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Stabilizer's avatar

OK, I've had enough, this MUST become required reading for all Americans.

Thom, glad you are back, but I 'd like ask where you found a superman pill to turn out so many excellent articles. I could use one myself.

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Robert B. Elliott's avatar

Here is more proof that Thom must be placed in a special bubble and preserved for at least the next 50 years with constant medical monitoring and a special diet and exercise regimen to keep us all informed and forewarned.

Honestly, I don't see the strong possibility that any new states will be added within the foreseeable future, except possibly Washington, D.C., although this message must be amplified in every way possible.

There is one alternative. If the people in the least populous states could be somehow reached by more rational and reasoned voices and brought into the 21 century, they would no longer be reactionary, ignorant, and xenophobic. If the bad laws undermining education and democracy were eliminated, the ideal of universal education would be much closer to realization. Well, okay, forget I mentioned it. That definitely isn't going to happen. Those bad laws are a security blanket for Americans and no one is willing to challenge the sacred cows or give up on reforming failing institutions so that children will learn democratic ideals through experience. Sorry, I keep forgetting.

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