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[gfish]

What do these headline all have in common?

• Wildfire murder charges filed


• U.S. officer describes disarray in Iraqi army


• General: Abuse scandal killed my career


• Seafood faces collapse, report says


• DEA: Gang of corrupt cops nabbed

They are all, according to CNN, less important than Cruise named studio top gun. We're only 5 days out from the most important and interesting midterm election of my lifetime*. Fuck you, CNN.

* This might be slight hyperbole. (Though I hope not.) Certainly the biggest since 1994.

Comments

Re: manufacturing informed consent

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Plus, as a nearly infinite number of books have fictionalized, a good person stepping up to bat and getting extraordinary powers, goes rotten amazingly quickly. People are lazy and want to follow, so anyone who wants to lead is a suspicious character. I dunno. Maybe we should just select people randomly and appoint them President. Maybe we should make like that old Dr. Who episode, where leaders got wired up to high-voltage voting machines and if they lost a vote of confidence they got really seriously screwed. (although that'd just make the condition-the-populace a matter of self-defense, rather than just a power grab technique.)

Re: manufacturing informed consent

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I think randomly choosing leaders is a bad idea, but I have been playing with the idea of randomly choosing a list of people who are allowed to run.

On the other hands, I'm not sure career politicians are really a bad thing. I kind of like my leaders to be experienced professionals...