Just a Brief Rant

I've added another quotation to my page header, courtesy of John at ... and no cheese. Because I think it's really important for people to read, I'm going to put it here as well, including the itty bit I took out for space reasons and its full context. I bolded the notable part.

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Hermann Goering, for those of you who haven't taken high school history yet, was Hitler's right-hand man. For anyone who still thinks there's nothing weird going on in this country, let this article jog your memory.

Okay, I'm done.

My sister took me to the eye doctor today; my eyes were dilated about 12:30 and as of now -- a few minutes past six -- my pupils are still so big that barely a sliver of eye color is showing. I'm afraid to go outside until it's dark. I always react like this, as K did when she had her eyes examined the other night. It looks pretty creepy.

After that we went to Panera for lunch and then the Sibs wanted to pick up a gift card at the Apple Store, but there was a dress store literally in between Panera and Apple and we loitered there for god knows how long, but she got a dress to wear to her son's wedding in September. I still have nothing; I really must start looking next week.

We came back to my house and I helped her set up a bunch of things on her new Mac, including Google Reader, which I think she still doesn't get, but she will. The new Mac OS is very nice, but I'm not sorry I didn't upgrade to it; I don't think it's really that different.

My tummy is so strange today, I can't really say bad, just strange. But I am tired. And tomorrow I have to get up with the alarm (!) because I have an appointment at 9:15, and I've mostly been sleeping until eight or so all summer, which is delightful, but I don't think it would get me out of the house in time.

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