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The Institute of Illogical Operation

Dedicated to the Pursuit of Operational Illogic.

John and Mary walked by the bankNovember 8

A couple of notes first: names have been changed, and all italicized words that appear below were also italicized in the conversation. 

LADY ONE 

Clavicus: hello
Lady1: hey..
Clavicus: how are you?
Lady1: i’m great.. =]  you?
Clavicus: pretty good
Clavicus: I have a headache though
Clavicus: I’m about to fix it
Lady1: aww, i’m sorry bout that..
Clavicus: Ok, I took some bc powder
Lady1: some what?
Clavicus: it’s a kind of headache medicine
Lady1: oh, really? i’ve never heard of it..
Clavicus: so how’s it going with Lee?
Lady1: great.. =) just amazing.. i talked to him today, and i’ll most likely talk to him later tonight after he gets off of work..
Clavicus: oh cool
Clavicus: I wish I had a job
Clavicus: I need money
Lady1: me too, lol.. i never have any..
Clavicus: So I got to hang out with Hollie last night. She’s one of the only friends I have here
Clavicus: I’m pretty happy about that
Clavicus: and it was her idea to hang out, too
Lady1: oh really? sweetness..
Lady1: i have my little cousin coming over and my friend tonight..
Clavicus: word
Clavicus: hey, I want to try something with you real quick, okay?
Clavicus: it’s easy
Clavicus: ready?
Lady1: ok..
Clavicus: ok, read this sentence: “Mary and John walked by the bank.”
Lady1: okie.
Lady1: i did

Let me say this before TuesdayNovember 2

Quote: “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.”

Fuck dat shit. I can complain when I want. According to the Constitution of the country I live in, “all men are created equal.” Forget the fact that this is bullshit that the writer didn’t even believe; if we’re all equal, my opinion matters just as much as yours.

Second, obviously, there’s the whole right to free speech thing, so I can say what I want on this matter.

Third, if I didn’t vote, I’m not the one who put the asshole in office in the first place.

I’m too young to vote anyway. Are you saying that because I’m not going to vote (which I don’t have a choice in because of my age), I’m just gonna have to shut up about politics until the next election year? Because I don’t have the right to complain and challenge things? Fuck dat shit. And fuck you.

Now let’s say I was able to vote but chose not to. So what? The above points still hold. But no, you say, the point is that even if I didn’t put the asshole in office, I still didn’t do anything to stop it from happening. Well fine, I’ll go with that. The reason I didn’t vote in this hypothetical situation would be that I didn’t find a candidate I liked. And I’m pretty sure there’s no ‘vote against’ button or lever in the poll booth. I’ve got a few friends who are voting for one candidate they admit sucks, just because they don’t want the other one to win. I think that’s a lit

C-Powell, do me one better or Respect, come get someOctober 26

Recently, as though reason had entirely escaped our society as a whole, the general response to the accusations that presidential nominee Barack Obama was indeed a Muslim was that, no, he was in fact Christian and always had been. Of course, that has always been a readily available tidbit of data, but it took until just last week for prominent Republican Colin Powell to come out on Meet the Press and finally say something sensible that ostensibly should have been the original response to such an accusation:

“And so what if he was Muslim?”

Ah, yes, reason, we can has some. Now, with this subject mostly quelled in the mainstream media due to Powell’s strong reasoning skills in this situation, all is well.

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Oh, if only that were true. Not only has Obama been attacked as though his faith is in question, he has also been attacked as though his politics are in question.

Yes, the conservatives of this country have been bandying about that awful word of hatred. They’re calling Obama a S…
S…..

No, not Satanist, although, I hear Fox News thought McCain could have won the election if he had used that one. (Not to say he won’t win, it’s been a long time since America has had a legitimate election.)

Socialist.

Barack Obama is a socialist and he will bring those pinko commie freaks into the White House!

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Now, let me take a step back a moment. I’d like to share a film with you. It’s an Encyclopedia Britannica filmstrip from 1946. It’s about a nations path to Despotism. It is positively Foucaultian in nature, and is distressing to watch and realize the people of 1946 in this country were obviously more well informed than our current population. Despotism, of course, being any government where all power is consolidated either in one person or an extremely small group of people. Now, here is said film:

Personal Space InvaderOctober 25

It’s MagicOctober 25