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...first, this statement sounds simply absurd: The "small" Douglas is 6'4" and 231 pounds...
...Democratic Bund. The nine delegates met in Minsk on the first three days of March 1898, proclaimed themselves a party, called for the overthrow of the Romanov rulers and then returned to their homes, where eight of the nine were promptly arrested. The fact that the heirs of this absurd little group actually did overthrow the Russian government not 22 years later was due largely to the malign genius of one man who wasn't even present at the Minsk meeting: Vladimir Ulyanov, who called himself Lenin (also at various times Meyer, Richter and Jordanov...
...time to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe," said Bush. But an empty hand is not enough. It is absurd to say, as some do, that money is not what Eastern Europe needs. Yes, capitalist expertise and rapid integration into the Western economic system are equally important. But this is no excuse for refusing simple cash. Nor is the fact that so much Western money was squandered in the 1970s. That was a different world...
...worse than absurd to say we cannot afford to be generous because of our own debts and social problems. As Bush proclaimed in the State of the Union, we are the most productive nation in the world, at least for the moment. The very collapse of communism will save us billions. If we choose to consume our riches (and more) rather than invest and share them, that is a statement about our spiritual condition, not our economic one. Which brings us back to the question of greatness...
...fear a crazed, degenerate white man, or a falling brick from a construction site, or a banana peel on the sidewalk. All of these scenarios are as plausible as they are unlikely; Maddox and Allen's rash generalization that "white America" goes through each day fearing Black men is absurd...