Grateful Dead

As soon as you're born they make you feel smallBy giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they're telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me by John Lennon

ol·i·gar·chy [ol-i-gahr-kee] noun, plural ol·i·gar·chies. 1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few. 2. a state or organization so ruled. 3. the persons or class so ruling. Origin: 1570–80; < Medieval Latin oligarchia < Greek oligarchía. See olig-, -archy "oligarchy." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 27 Jan. 2014. Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy.

The 6 Wal-Mart heirs are worth more than 48% of the American people. It's time for the minimum wage to be raised to AT LEAST $10 and more like $15! Obama should roll out some good ideas tomorrow night. What a JOKE to believe that everybody in this country has an equal chance for upward mobility. The Republicans have uttered nothing, no words of worth or value for years. Just crap like Tradle of Florida (R) resigning for buying crack in a Fed sting. Immigration Global Warming Infrastructure What do the Repubs want? Repeal of the estate tax so we all can become bloody peasants again!

I like her too. Also, she seems to have good sense to go with the talent.

Taylor Swift drives me into a wild tizsy! What a great young talented woman.

The World:Sochi Winter Olympics: Likeliness of terrorism Kiev, Ukraine: Weeks of protests turned violent. President wants to side with Russia South Sudan: Hundreds of thousands killed based now on tribe instead of politics. Syria: Stalemate in the war with no end in sight. No unification of the rebels means deadlock. Syrian refugees destabilizing the entire region. Iran eases up on nuclear issue to talk The US: NSA rolls on with minors adjustments, no clemency for Snowden Chris Christy does a belly flop in the Jersey mud. Washington & Colorado: Smokem' while practicing with your AK-47 No extension on unemployment I probably missed a lot of stuff, not paying much attention these days...

I would definitely say that I am glibly optimistic w/o much evidence...

49ers at Seahawks should be one for the ages. I've always been a fan of the NFC West for some reason and at least one of my teams will be in the SuperBowl.

I've been to S. Korea three times before and remember a medium-large sized city in the South named Kwang Jue. Maybe this whole thing was sloppy reporting but I have to believe that the 31 year old wouldn't engage in a diplomatic head-fake of that immensity. Still, there is Arraratt, the N. Korean version of the Olympics on steroids. The Korean peninsula is tricky, acid-glazed kind of place.

Anna, I wasn't questioning whether Jang Song Thaek had been fed to a pack of starving dogs (although there are those who have questioned whether it went down that way), but rather I was saying that I didn't share your conclusion that "The human race is better than this and will eventually evolve." That's the claim for which I can find no evidence and that's what makes us human: we hope even when there is no reason to do so.