Reply #5: Bunch of damned Boy Scouts sitting round the campfire . . . [View All]

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. . . shining flashlights under their chins and scaring themselves silly with ghost stories and urban legends.

Scary tales about Saddam. Even scarier tales about Osama. And -- ooh, ooh, don't look behind you -- scarier tales yet about Things from Outside that want to take over your house and rape your gerbils and eat your goldfish for breakfast.

Most of us can't afford to be that scared of that many things -- we're too busy worrying about normal stuff, like paying the bills and where that drip in the basement is coming from. But I guess if you've got Uncle Sam covering the tab, you can indulge yourself by putting up defenses against any passing hallucination you might encounter.

Isn't there some sort of law against us having to pay for our national leaders to be weenies?