Remember this golden moldie? Kinda puts things in perspective as to why we are where we are these days.

The aide said that guys like me were ‘’in what we call the reality-based community,'’ which he defined as people who ‘’believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘’That’s not the way the world really works anymore,'’ he continued. ‘’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'’

- Ron Suskind, NY Times writer, quoting a senior Bush administration official, summer of 2002

I never cease to be amazed at the cosmic hubris that prompted someone in the administration to make such a palpably ridiculous assertion. This administration wouldn’t know reality if it smacked them upside the head with a cat-o-nine-tails soaked in jellyfish venom, which I suspect is about to happen, but the public may receive the backlash. Their idea of reality is a numbered account in a tax-free foreign bank. The longer they stay in charge, the greater the odds of them taking us down with them when they go.

- Ed Lacy
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