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There is a tiny part of me that thinks "real" Republicanism would be okay. That is, if folk who bill themselves as "conservative" were actually about conserving government spending and not servants of a fundamentalist social agenda, I might at least trust those folk a bit more than "liberals" who are only pro-gay or pro-woman or pro-child with certain limitations.

This part of me was feeling particularly frisky listening to Christine Todd Whitman talk about her book this morning. In actuality, I think the sort of thinking that says the world's current issues could be resolved if government just backed off of everything except defense is overly idealistic. But it still made me wonder...

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grr.

I resent the implication that entering a beauty and/or talent competition equates to "living life to the fullest". First part of the article's kinda interesting, though.

I could say a lot more, but I've said most of those things enough times that you're all probably tired of them.