book one redone - Coldbacon
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“Oh sweet name, I call you again, you’re born once again for me<br />
Just because I believe don’t mean I don’t think as well<br />
Don’t have to question everything in heaven or hell.”<br />
— unimportant musician<br />
There is this idea that when you are working, you are the work. That you<br />
can leave your personal views behind. This notion of man and job being<br />
separate is undoubtedly playing now at a congressional hearing near you.<br />
Does he hate this group or that group more? Does he hate your mother? I<br />
hate your mother. Other questions—did he really give Bob J<strong>one</strong>s a hand<br />
job in the back seat of a V-8, American style? Mr. A, when did these<br />
symptoms begin? Does he dream of wrestling snakes, law-breaking<br />
snakes? We have to kill as many snakes as possible. We have to set an<br />
example.<br />
While focusing on whether he could or would be confirmed, the media<br />
ignored the more interesting question of why John Ashcroft would want to<br />
be attorney general anyway. It seems like the attorney general should be<br />
in love or at least have a big crush on the law itself, to have and uphold.<br />
He should not be of the mind that fanatically pushing <strong>one</strong> view or another<br />
is cool, while philosophical detachment is not. In other words, he should<br />
probably not be a U.S. Senator. Perhaps no senator should ever be<br />
attorney general. Perhaps all senators should serve two terms and then be<br />
immediately jettis<strong>one</strong>d into space. Now you’ll tell me half our attorney<br />
generals have been senators—damned good <strong>one</strong>s! I have no response to<br />
that, except that I hate you.<br />
Think of it in terms of rational versus irrational thought. I once knew this<br />
scientist who was so rational in his work it was maddening. Day after day,<br />
from <strong>one</strong> experiment to the next, I saw not a single irrational move. Yet<br />
this same person went home at night and used a special machine to create<br />
an even more special electric field under which he slept. This protected<br />
him from getting colds. He insisted. Because both rational and irrational<br />
thought coexist in all people, it is certainly possible for John Ashcroft to<br />
perform rationally as attorney general. Possible but not likely, that is,<br />
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