I'm not being oppressed. Help, I'm not being oppressed!

Dear Tim,

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Liberals like me love your sarcastic ways. More please.

sincerely,

me

PS - I may want to tag this.

I watched Team America last night, and every time a Hollywood actor puppet said something about evil corporations, I couldn't help but wonder if there are lots of people who are bankrolled by big corporations going on and on about how evil they are.

I mean, I guess I'm the same kind of hypocrite - here I am, a gov't employee, always ragging on government. So, yeah. Wow, that was humbling.

Anyway, this seemed relevant somehow. I always think of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as having something to say about frontier stuff. Of course, that's where the American Revolution in the future comes in, with the taxation without representation and whatnot. And I feel kinda stupid for not recognizing it until after I read it.

I couldn't help but wonder if there are lots of people who are bankrolled by big corporations going on and on about how evil they are.

I did when I worked for the Other Evil Empire; some of my friends who work for the Official Evil Empire do. Then we sigh and say "it's a living" and go do evil, trying to ameliorate it. I have a friend who works for the Bradford Exchange, and boy, does she have a lot to say about the horror of it.

Nowadays I work for the Nice Empire. It's much more fun.

The radio call-in contest with the guy who has a mouthfull of PB&J sandwich and no milk to wash it down with.

"AWWYNNNN BUUUUHHH!"

The zenith of Michael Bay's career.

Michael Bay directed that?

Hamilton dying in agony after the duel is a fantastic ending! I mean, not so much for him, but for drama.

But it's not just the duel. The story of a bastard from a slave trade infested island dreaming for a war so he might show his stuff, then in a couple of short years he's General Washington's right hand man. (His views on race and slavery were, well, revolutionary for the time. He was not only against the institution, but scoffed that non-whites were in any way genetically inferior)

Hamilton was the prototypical emigrant who came to America to reinvent himself -- and practically invented the idea of America in the process.

Plus, first American sex scandal!

Michael Bay directed that?

It's got like a million shots in it. Give or take.

So you're going to write the movie, right, Tim? You can call it Ballistic: Burr vs. Hamilton.

Hamilton was the prototypical emigrant who came to America to reinvent himself -- and practically invented the idea of America in the process.

Plus, if my $10 bills ain't lying, a HOTTIE!

Went to Columbia. ijs.