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"The last Republican administration was so anti-government in its ideology that they aggressively dismantled their own departments. What is so incredible is that they did this without cutting spending.

"They cut government until nothing was left but waste."

-- mathrec, 2009-05-12

Thanks for the kind responses to what I wrote about my dad underneath yesterday's QotD.

Feeling terribly sluggish today; still trying to really get myself moving. Not coping at all well with loud noises, but at least it's not one of those days when even moderate noises sound loud.

Odd dream this morning ... ( cut because I know one's dreams are seldom as interesting to others )

I was also thinking, in that not-quite-awake post-dream state where there's more logic and realism than the dream but the mind still goes off in odd directions, about whether the advantage of modern semiautomatics over antique revolvers was something I should really worry about. I decided that my being in an action movie, however improbable, was more likely than my ever being in a thirty-minute gun battle in real life, so I'd probably be able to leave the choice of weapon to the prop manager and let the number of bullets be a continuity problem for the writer and director instead of being my problem. This line of thought seemed to make perfect sense at the time.

[1] As opposed to the modern "smokeless" powder that's been popular for, uh, about a century now, I think.