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Manhood / Paranoid?
I got an email from a friend recently, in which he noted that he drives a 500 horsepower Mustang which gets far too many gallons per mile. While peeling rubber like Treasury peels off billions for bailouts, my friend usually smokes a cigar, while jabbering away on his soon-to-be-taxed cell phone that's partially paid for by his employer. How did I feel about this email? Envious. But how did he feel? Paranoid. Because he knows that his time was back then, not now. Like an upper middle class T-Rex, he awaits the arrival of a serious kick-in-the-asteroid which will make him extinct. His was the good old days, of living to excess and loving every minute of it. These are the bad new days, of hope... READ MORE
