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...time I did my part for democracy. I knew it was time because I was stuck at the Republican Convention and people kept talking about doing stuff for democracy, and I'm a bit of a joiner. The problem is, I had no idea what to do. Then I heard American Samoa give the lamest preamble to casting its votes, listing the most generic virtues of its home whatever-you-call-that-nonstate-thing-they-are. I realized my country was calling me to punch up the 30 seconds when the states plug themselves. It seemed easier than voting...
...joiner," Weaver confides. "I don't belong to the militia or any other group. I have my own take on things. Hell, I'm really not even a Christian. But I get calls all the time from the militia and other groups to come talk. I can't now. But if I do, I think I would only last a few speeches. They would find out I don't really agree with them either...
...about the tragic 1992 shootout in Ruby Ridge, Idaho that killed his wife and son and the legend that has grown up about him as a result. Weaver, who has been lionized by the anti-government militia movement, thinks that they picked the wrong hero. "I'm not a joiner," Weaver confided at his home in rural Grand Junction, Iowa. "I don't belong to the militia or any other group. I have my own take on things. Hell, I'm really not even a Christian. But I get calls all the time from the militia and other groups...
...fate. For example, a man afflicted with the name of Kill Sin Pimple lived in Sussex, in 1609. In the spring of that year, the record shows, Kill Sin served on a jury with his Puritan neighbors, including Fly Debate Roberts, More Fruit Fowler, God Reward Smart, Be Faithful Joiner and Fight the Good Fight of Faith White. Poor men. At birth, their parents had turned them into religious bumper stickers...
...antagonists: John D. Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful monopolies in the world, and Ida Tarbell, the muckraking journalist who exposed the unscrupulous tactics by which he did so. Later the series highlights less celebrated but equally colorful characters: people like Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, the Texas wildcatter who sought money by scouring newspaper obituaries and writing mash notes to wealthy widows, and Calouste Gulbenkian, the powerful Middle Eastern oil broker who was reportedly so suspicious that he had two sets of doctors, one to check up on the other...