Mr. O'Horowitz posted

Wow...just as I was starting to miss the embezzlers, perjurers, rapists, vanguardists, racists and war criminals (does anyone know how to spell `El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industry`?!) Woe is us.

Caligula replied:

How can you miss what's in such abundance? Let's go through your list.

A) Embezzlers: I personally dont really mind your garden variety embezzler. And I consider graft an unfortunate but unavoidable cost of doing business. I personally engage in kickbacks and payoffs on a daily basis, just as a matter of course. Sadly, I'm not positioned properly for the 500 million dollar Enron-style rake-off, but hope does spring eternal. Maybe someday. But as far as your wistful cry for the good old days of embezzlement, given the daily financial news, surely you cant argue that there's a shortage.

B: Perjurers:

Hmmm, no obvious shortage there, though I suppose there's always room for more.

C: Rapists: Wow. If you see shortages there, youre really really kinky...

D: Vanguardists: Huh?

E: Racists: Dime a dozen, available by the gross, yesterday tomorrow and any other day. No shortage.

F: War criminals: A veritable and undeniable plenitude, across the landscape; a wealth, a bouquet of war criminals, splattered across the front pages of every newspaper, as there has been since the first newspaper was printed on the first banana leaf. No shortage there. Though, again, there's always room for more.

O'Horowitz continues: Once the prozac has kicked in, maybe you can explain to the group why history was made yesterday?

Caligula replies:

First I'd have to explain why I beat my wife. And then why I murdered Jesus Christ.

O'Horowitz continues:

If this is government is a mandate-free group of cowboys, why didn't the great American public turn out and stick it to them? If FLA 2000 was the gaping wound to democracy that you seem to think it was, it would have spelt meltdown for the GOP.

Caligula replies:

The first lemming has a mandate as soon as a majority of his fellows follow him off a cliff. Doesnt make him right, unless a glistening death was his initial intention. Napoleon had a mandate, as did Stalin, and Hitler, and George Custer.

A "great republic" surely would have tossed them out. Sadly, we don't have a great republic. All we've got is us. And clearly we don't really rate.

O'Horowitz concludes:

It's a beautiful day, PJOH  

Caligula concurs:

Yes, sunny, about 72 fahrenheit, high clouds. No rain. Much like Sept 12, 2001. Perfect orgy weather. Which reminds me, I'm late for the next one. Cant wait, just hate to be late, there may be a virgin that I havent raped.

yrs,

Caligula