Reading Update...

Bill Kauffman's Bye Bye Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, And Their Underdog Crusades To Redraw American's Political Map (2010).

Sample quote: "The American Empire is dead. That gathering murmur you hear is not sobbing: Good riddance to the damn monster. Rather, the noise is the sweet hum of revolution, of subjects learning how to be citizens, of people shaking off (or flipping off) their Wall Street and Pentagon overlords and taking charge of their lives once more, whether as members of verdant countryside or the sodality of the city neighborhood."

Movie Update...

Firefly (TV series, 2002)

Sample quote from Captain Mal Reynolds: "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another."

By the way, I did not watch every episode of this series. I watched about four episodes.

Reading Update...

The Freedom Manifesto: How To Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste by Tom Hodgkinson (2006)

Sample quote from the chapter titled 'Forget Government:' "Then there is the spectacle of a general election. Every five years or so, the people, who have been more or less ignored by the politicians since the previous election, are suddenly bombarded with the notion that voting is very important. ... I suppose that the whole thing can be enjoyed for a few moments as a piece of entertainment. The mistake is to think that it has the slightest meaning or relevance to our everyday lives whatsoever."