There, I Fixed It For You

[elfs]

"Democracy will come to an end when the peopleour monied coporations learn they can vote themselves money from the public treasury." - Alexander Tyler, 1763 (with an injection by Thomas Jefferson)

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, that Tyler quotation you're modifying appears to have been created from whole cloth in the relatively recent past.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Now I am sad. Ah, well, it has a ring of truthiness. Snopes has details (http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html).

I still think our politicians should be required to wear their sponsors' logos on their blazers, like sports figures.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

If it's so truthy, find me an example of that process actually happening in history.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Truthiness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness) is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

I don't believe I can, which is why it has a ring of "truthiness," and not the ring of truth.

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

With the change to mail-in/drop box voting in King County, there's a bunch of information not yet in for Washington: no exit polls, no print-outs posted after polls close. A lot of folks waited until Tuesday to turn theirs in. Maybe things will look better as those are counted?

[erisiansaint]

I hope so. I"m afraid to even look at results, I'll have to start drinking and it's only 10:30 am.

[urox.livejournal.com]

Both CEOs (Ebay, HP, and female to boot) lost in California. We know who's shipping our jobs overseas, taking away our pensions, and don't give a damn about the "little people". It's not the bad business climate in CA, it's the CEO's looking to make more profit. Nothing CA does for businesses will bring those jobs back. The numbers can never be competitive enough.