Re: the effect of the environment
--- In synergeo@yahoogroups.com, tim stockton
> politics is really fragmenting-
Lots of phoney baloney scapegoating going on here in the US.
Trying to blame everything on GWB's inner circle is a silly cop out though he does make a fun lightning rod in a storm with that What Me Worry?™ attitude.
It's been an oppressive period, a lot of it backlash (reactionary).
When a Medal of Freedom winner's inventive thinking is kept away from public school kids, it oughta be obvious to any astute observer that moronic monkey brains are in the control room (or so they fancy themselves).
Anyway, didn't we already see all this in Planet of the Apes?
Fortunately, the Iraqis and Iranians have an easier time following, as they never lost touch with geometry so completely. NCLB owes a lot to Arab and Persian cultures. Sound familiar?
Kirby