"he's the greatest dancer i've seen since baryshnikov or nureyev."

[rone]

I had this quote in my .signature some time ago:

[Ronald Reagan's] presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown.  After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity."  I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
        — G. B. Trudeau

Sadly, not only are people like that woman still around, they've gotten much, much worse.  I really hope this is the last i'll ever hear or read about that goddamn horse.

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I think my initial interest in woo-woo stuff derived from the observation that some people will plug just about anything into their religion receptors.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

See L. Ron Hubbard.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Or Carlos Castaneda, for that matter.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Which is why G. K. Chesterton says you have to be Christian: to prevent yourself from believing in anything. Only stick G. K. Chesterton-approved Gods in your God hole so you don't believe in anything!

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

So it's supposed to be like some sort of inoculation, then?