Also, Nancy Pelosi loves Hitler.

The em that spurred today's rant isn't worth reprinting. It's accessible
through the Snopes.com link below. Suffice it to say that it's ...

"False.

As in: false. As in: someone is, yet again, forwarding internet chain mail
without bothering to do even LESS reasearch (i.e. Googling "pelosi windfall
tax") than any high-school student is expected to do.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pelosi.asp

Hey, did you hear that Bill Gates is paying $.01 for every e-mail that you
send? No? Maybe you heard about that poor child with cancer who's
collecting e-mail pen-pals?

We Americans are taken in and outraged by fakeries and, when presented with
points backed by evidence, are bored by or hostile to it. Evidentiary
reason is the only support of a democratic union.

Every day I teach the kids of the so-called Millenium Generation. They're
the first generation to be rasied without any notion of, much less respect
for, evidentiary reason. You don't want to live in the world they'll
govern. But no worries: you won't -- because they won't. Because
ultimately, power is truth and stupidos flip burgers. The torch of reason
(ergo power) has long passed beyond our borders. Either we reclaim it or
we're the next Former Empire, e.g. Iran.

Bye America! Bye "Great Experiment," and thanks for the rules by which to
govern every democracy on Earth save ours! Don't forget, America, to
mindlessly mouthe "Jesus" and, if you're really sophisticated, "values"
before you stick your head in that wood-chipper! Bye now!