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From my outlier's vantage point, even the far-left appears as but a mere a speck on the distant eastern horizon.
Bio
I am a life-long Registered Independent (38 years). When I took the Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You? http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html my ideologic score was 348/400 'extremely progressive' the national average is 209.5
Some of my favorite quotes: Civilisation's greatest single invention is the sentence-J Banville; Whys=Wise Phala Ray; We're all chickens in this coop, come cluck with me-Phala Ray; We're all pink on the inside; Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have...Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live-Saul Alinsky; The most violent element in society is ignorance-Emma Goldman; If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun-Kate Hepburn...
Some of my favorite books: Living My Life, Emma Goldman; The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, Ring Lardner; Knots, RD Laing; Blindness, Saramago, The Denial of Death, Becker; Pathways To Madness; Das Parfum, Suskind; a Room of One's Own, V Woolf; etc. etc. etc.
I've subscribed to HuffPo since Arianna first started. I contributed to Rod Amis' site G21 before the word 'blog' existed. William Rivers-Pitt remains one of my favorite writers.
