Name of the Year Bracketology

[Lauren '06]

[quote ugarte][quote Killer]How is it that Dick Cheney isn't among the candidates?  Or is he just the de facto Grand Pubah of All Things Evil?[/quote]
You could fill a bracket with people who go by the name "Dick". It isn't enough.

Dick Trickle (NOY Hall of Famer, IIRC), now that's a name.[/quote]
I believe Killer was referring to the Bracket of Evil, but while we're on the subject, wasn't there somebody affiliated with the women's lacrosse team named Dick Blood?

[BCrespi]

[quote Lauren '06][quote ugarte][quote Killer]How is it that Dick Cheney isn't among the candidates?  Or is he just the de facto Grand Pubah of All Things Evil?[/quote]
You could fill a bracket with people who go by the name "Dick". It isn't enough.

Dick Trickle (NOY Hall of Famer, IIRC), now that's a name.[/quote]
I believe Killer was referring to the Bracket of Evil, but while we're on the subject, wasn't there somebody affiliated with the women's lacrosse team named Dick Blood?[/quote]

I think it is/was the softball coach, but I'm too scared to Google that at work.

[billhoward]

[Drift] When I was a police reporter, Springfield police arrested, for soliciting, a woman the arrest blotter said was Anita Mann. I figured it was a setup to see how gullible a new reporter was. Turns out it was her name. Talk about destiny.

[Rosey]

[quote KeithK]I would never consider Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, Obama, Murtha, etc. to be evil.  Just stupid and/or foolish.[/quote]
Not sure I would agree.  I simply can't believe that those in the highest positions of our government don't grok at least a partial view of the consequences of their policies.

That said, the people get the government they deserve: Bush, Hastert, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. are only giving the people what they've asked for.  You want entitlements?  Here you go!  Sorry for the big helping of inflation and taxes to go along with that, but we're putting it off for as long as we can; trust us!

The people at whom your ire should be directed are those who continue to support this foolish system.  Democracy, at least at the federal level and with the power de facto vested in the central government, is an utter failure.  Bush, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. are only symptoms of the real problems, which are (a) that the government has the power to create arbitrary rules and enforce them at the point of a gun and (b) that it can take from one person and give to another, and make this all seem legitimate because the majority is ultimately making the rules by electing these clowns.

Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny, yet few people seem to grasp this concept.  Ask me how aggravated I get when people equate "democracy" and "freedom".  The two concepts aren't even orthogonal: they are in direct opposition.  One can argue that some government is necessary in order to maximize freedom, but how many people think Americans' freedoms would actually be in danger if we were to eliminate (say) half of the US Code?  I'm guessing "not too many", which means that people want big government for reasons other than promoting freedom.  This is the point at which the thought experiment starts lighting brushfires in the minds of men.

Apologies for the threadjack. ;-)

[Beeeej]

[quote Kyle Rose]Apologies for the threadjack. ;-)[/quote]

For the what, now?  Hadn't noticed.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote Kyle Rose][quote KeithK]I would never consider Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, Obama, Murtha, etc. to be evil.  Just stupid and/or foolish.[/quote]
Not sure I would agree.  I simply can't believe that those in the highest positions of our government don't grok at least a partial view of the consequences of their policies.

That said, the people get the government they deserve: Bush, Hastert, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. are only giving the people what they've asked for.  You want entitlements?  Here you go!  Sorry for the big helping of inflation and taxes to go along with that, but we're putting it off for as long as we can; trust us!

The people at whom your ire should be directed are those who continue to support this foolish system.  Democracy, at least at the federal level and with the power de facto vested in the central government, is an utter failure.  Bush, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. are only symptoms of the real problems, which are (a) that the government has the power to create arbitrary rules and enforce them at the point of a gun and (b) that it can take from one person and give to another, and make this all seem legitimate because the majority is ultimately making the rules by electing these clowns.

Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny, yet few people seem to grasp this concept.  Ask me how aggravated I get when people equate "democracy" and "freedom".  The two concepts aren't even orthogonal: they are in direct opposition.  One can argue that some government is necessary in order to maximize freedom, but how many people think Americans' freedoms would actually be in danger if we were to eliminate (say) half of the US Code?  I'm guessing "not too many", which means that people want big government for reasons other than promoting freedom.  This is the point at which the thought experiment starts lighting brushfires in the minds of men.

Apologies for the threadjack. ;-)[/quote]

Wow!  Howard Beale, the mad prophet of the airwaves strikes again!  ::wow::

[CKinsland]

Similarly, years ago when I was serving on a grand jury, we a case in which the accused had the last name of "Badman".  The poor cops couldn't stop chuckling every time they had to say "Mr. Badman".

CK

[Rosey]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Wow!  Howard Beale, the mad prophet of the airwaves strikes again!  ::wow::[/quote]
I'm not usually mad as hell: usually, I'm mostly resigned to the foolishness of man.  But certain things do set me off... :-)

[TimV]

[quote Kyle Rose]  Apologies for the threadjack. ;-)[/quote]

S'OK Kyle.  It got jacked as soon as it went from "Name" to "Evil" Bracketology.

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