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"When you see the truth about yourself and your own illusions, you begin to see the truth about the rest of the world. It’s truly the road less traveled. We’re all just looking for love, so if you just choose to begin at that place of love, the rest comes easy. Conversely, government is intrinsically based on the initiation of force. Trying to work within a system of coercion to change the nature of it is futile. If we are to return to a modicum of liberty as human beings, what must take place is an intimate, internal exercise of honesty and willingness, with only the most tender of affection for ourselves. The effect goes out into the world like a pebble tossed into a still pond. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana16.html
"[W]hat we need to take into account are the unseen benefits of activism. Had the advocates of liberty never spoken up, never written books, never taught in the classroom, never written editorials, and never advanced their views in any public or private forum, would the cause of liberty have been better off or the same? ... When measuring the success of the freedom movement, these are the sorts of questions we have to ask. It is not enough to observe that the world has yet to conform to our image. We need to take note of the ways in which the world has not conformed to the state's image. No state is liberal by nature, said Mises. Every state wants to control all. If it does not do so, the major reason is that freedom-minded intellectuals are making the difference."
http://www.mises.org/story/2433
"[T]he really big news this holiday season—a Christmas present of inestimable proportion, from Canadian science to all sixteen million of us—is that diabetes has been cured. Completely. Irrevocably. In mice." [Like L.Neil, my wife and I both also suffer from type 2 diabetes. This is great news.]
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle399-20061224-02.html
"Both here at home and abroad, the year saw significant progress on various fronts, from marijuana law reform to harm reduction advances to the rollback of repressive drug laws in Europe and Latin America. Below -- in no particular order -- is our necessarily somewhat arbitrary list of the ten most significant victories and advances for the cause of drug law reform."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/466/best_of_times_drug_reform_victories_advances_in_2006
"In America today each faction's 'truths' are defined by the faction's dogma or ideology. Each faction bans factual analysis that it doesn't want to hear. This is as true within the universities as it is at political rallies. The old liberal notion that 'we shall follow the truth wherever it may lead' has long departed from America. Think tanks reflect the views of the donors. Studies are no longer independent of their financing. In America, truth has become partisan."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12302006.html
"Earlier this week, Megan Greenwell of The Washington Post uncovered the tragic story of a local veteran of the war in Afghanistan who became mentally unstable after getting new orders for Iraq -- and was then shot and killed by police the day after Christmas. Although not an official 'Iraq casualty,' he was another example of the growing fatal impact of that war."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003525963
"Besides military analysts, each news network featured 'weapons experts' - usually without opposition or balance - to discuss the main justification for war: weapons of mass destruction. The problem for US media was that there was wide disagreement among WMD experts, with many skeptical about an Iraqi threat. The problem only worsened when UN inspectors returned and could not confirm any of the US claims. ... Management favored experts who backed the Bush view - and hired several of them as paid analysts. Networks that normally cherished shouting matches were opting for discussions of harmonious unanimity. This made for dull, predictable TV. It also helped lead our nation to war, based on false premises."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606M.shtml
"The triggering incident was his refusal to use a Taser on an unresisting elderly suspect; this episode revealed that Perez -- who would appear to be an exemplary officer, a throwback to an era when police were peace officers, rather than heavily armed enforcers of the State's decrees – was not morally ductile. He was fired for disobeying an order from a superior that was unconstitutional and illegal by the department's own standards."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-police-professionalism-serious.html
"In this season, our messages are supposed to be of love and peace. I can only convey the message that has come to me this day, the message you are reading. There is no peace on earth. There are many vicious, brutal, and evil men. They need to be stopped and brought to justice. The system of states is designed to protect and coddle many of these beasts. Genocide is one result."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff125.html
"A star expands just before it goes nova and historically, so do governments—as in the examples above. The nova that is currently building will be of epic proportions! Personally, I'll not lose a minute of sleep worrying about the fake issue of disappearing "national" borders. "
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle399-20061224-04.html
"The spectacle of Nixon on trial for his wrongdoing, Reagan on trial for Iran-Contra, or Bush on trial for any number of things would help the people lose their irrational and counterproductive confidence in government."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/12/maintaining-public-confidence-is-not.html
"I believe the government-media complex quite likes when an old ex-president dies of natural causes. Short of an attack on our soil, nothing gives the power-worshipers such an opportunity to feed the public big doses of the secular religion we call statism."
http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/12/praise-state.html
"For a long time, it was as though the incident made no impact on me; kindness was not a gesture I knew how to process emotionally. Back then, my first reaction to everything was fear and I did not understand, I could not have recognized kindness. Today I understand why someone who could harm a stranger would choose instead to help them…even if it meant breaking the rules. I also understand what it means to the person who receives the kindness. Today the gesture affects me with far more emotion than it did on the morning years ago."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,238960,00.html
"Of particular note is Section II, in which Russell considers how Britain might be defended from a foreign invasion with no army and no navy, using only the methods of non-violent passive resistance. Although Russell doesn’t quite realize it, the answer he offers amounts, in the end, to doing away with the central State and its organized machinery."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/12/25/the_gift
"Will next year bring a change to the balance of power that seems to exist between the carnivores and the vegetarians? One factor could alter this balance of power: Cuba after Fidel. With the Maximo Lider on his way out, Chavez will assume, probably next year, the definitive leadership of the carnivores. But it is by no means a foregone conclusion that he will dictate the terms of the new Cuba."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1881
"The idea that any politician or party can bring about a 'healing' ignores the fact that all of politics is grounded in division and the setting of different groups against one another in bitter social conflict. To 'heal' the country of such divisiveness would entail shutting down the entire political apparatus, as well as transforming the thinking that produces such violent systems. Mr. Ford's role, by contrast, was to help refurbish the gold-foiled image of the state that our teachers worked so hard to instill in our young minds."
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/011955.html
"[T]his declension into madness has moved from very specific targets ('terrorist groups of global reach') to the more generalized and already impossibly vague 'global war on terrorism' to the new formulation: a war against 'radicals and extremists' – wherever they might be, however you decide, arbitrarily, to define them, and whether or not they engage in violence against the United States."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=973&Itemid=135
"Suffice it to say that choosing Panama to declare 'We do not torture' is a little like dropping by a slaughterhouse to pronounce the United States a nation of vegetarians. And yet when covering the Bush announcement, not a single mainstream news outlet mentioned the sordid history of its location. How could they? To do so would require something totally absent from the current debate: an admission that the embrace of torture by US officials long predates the Bush Administration and has in fact been integral to US foreign policy since the Vietnam War."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051226/klein
"In 1996, Sir Robert Cooper published a pamphlet entitled 'The Postmodern State and the World Order' [.pdf]. In it, he suggested, 'The postmodern world has to start to get used to double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But when dealing with old-fashioned states outside the postmodern continent of Europe we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era – force, preemptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary…' "
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lohdi.php?articleid=10229
"Despite its willingness to reveal the secrets of a quarter century ago, the Bush administration—like the Clinton administration, but with measurably more enthusiasm—continues to abuse the classification system. It bends the law to hide material it has no legitimate reason to hide, as illustrated by its recent squabble with the American Civil Liberties Union over a document so boring it's hard to see what the fuss was about."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117499.html
"I think it's time for all of us to admit that something extremely sinister is happening in the American media landscape. We are being split up into rigid camps and kept doped up on fear, hate and invective. At the end of 2006 we are a country without life-threatening economic or political problems whose population is utterly consumed with paranoia, divided into two insoluble groups, with each genuinely afraid of being exterminated by the other."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12984925/
"As 2006 comes to a close, the world is in flames and George W. Bush’s foreign policy is both directly and indirectly to blame. He has caused a civil war by invading Iraq, continued an occupation of Afghanistan that motivated a revival of the deposed radical Islamist Taliban movement, pushed for elections in Palestine that elected the Islamist group Hamas, cooperated with Israel’s failed attack on Lebanon that enhanced the status of the Islamist group Hezbollah in that country’s politics, and created an al Qaeda–friendly Islamist threat to Somalia by supporting unpopular warlords. What other foreign policy disasters can George W. Bush perpetrate in his last two years in office?"
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1884
"If you want to know precisely how the American people are kept deliberately ignorant, simply click on the link to this story in the nation's 'newspaper of record,' the journal which sets the standard for and largely determines the news agenda of the American press: The Defiant Despot Oppressed Iraq for More than 30 Years. ... But do let's be fair. The New York Times is not Pravda; it does not simply engage in the wholesale whitewashing of history in order to comfort the comfortable and keep the rabble from knowing what their betters really get up to behind the glowing video screen. No, its whitewashing is often incomplete; little flecks of partial truth will occasionally show through."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=980&Itemid=135
"[O]nly a few weeks after the London bombing, the Gulf Coast was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Because they have the attention spans of two-year-olds, members of Congress immediately turned all their attention to firefighters and natural disaster preparedness. Since then Congress has been committed to spend much more security money on natural disasters."
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/09/26/veronique-de-rugy/knee-jerk-security/
"Cartesian reason, as we said, is good at technical and physical problems, but it is not very good when it is turned on itself, or on human life. Instead, we are much more likely to understand who and what we are by looking at things we have done in the past -- history -- or things we have made -- culture. Man is first of all, Homo faber (man the creator), and we understand him best by looking at his creations. Customary laws work, in other words, because they come out of the history and culture of a society."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/Rajiva30.htm
"Few American economists have wielded as much influence on economic thought and policy as the late Milton Friedman. He was an articulate and ardent advocate of free markets and personal liberty."
http://www.mises.org/story/2414
"[D]emocracy should be seen as a useful means to an end, a liberal society, and not an end in itself. In reality, the chief danger of government lies not in its form, democracy or nondemocracy, but in its power, limited or unlimited. Thus, the development of a less transformational form of democracy, a government more humble in its aspirations, less willing to attempt to engineer society, both at home and abroad, would be a good thing. "
http://www.antiwar.com/bandow/?articleid=10233
"There is a simple way to put a big dent in the organ shortage -- give organs first to people who have agreed to donate their own organs when they die. Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. People who aren't willing to share the gift of life should go to the back of the waiting list as long as there is a shortage of organs."
"My main career goal is to help people suffering from obesity and type-2 diabetes. Personally, I’ve made a conscious decision over the past five years to avoid eating trans fats. So what do I think of New York city’s recent ban on trans fats, and the proposed statewide trans fat prohibition in Massachusetts, which is all but assured to pass unanimously? Read on. I’ll let you decide for yourself."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy-s/murphy-s10.html
"Of the Central European countries—Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic—all but the Czech Republic are seeing the rise of politicians who combine 'right-wing' attitudes toward public and private morality with 'left-wing' ideas about economics. Demands for tax hikes, price controls, tighter labor regulations, and renationalization of privatized property mix freely with calls for a return to faith, traditional family values, and restrictions on sexual autonomy."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117091.html
"Time and again, police would send people into the Rack n' Roll pool hall to buy, sell, and use drugs (as well as to attempt to induce Ruttenberg and his employees into illegal activity). When Ruttenberg would report the drug activity, the police would do nothing about it -- a strong sign that the users were actually working for the police. Word would then magically spread around town that Rack n' Roll was a hub for drug activity. It was. It's just that the police appeared to be the source of a good deal of it."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027361.php#027361
"Other nations train their best and their brightest to be machinists and engineers -- often in America's own graduate schools, where the science programs are now largely dominated by Asian nationals. Our kids, meantime, are handed college degrees after taking courses in how to write advertising jingles and situation comedies -- jobs likely to be landed by about the same percentage of our youth as become NBA stars."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Dec-24-Sun-2006/opinion/11419981.html
"In the 1990s, the Americans intervened in the name of 'humanitarianism,' against the warlords; in the new millennium, we have tossed aside humanitarian concerns in favor of the ruthless pursuit of 'terrorists,' real or imagined. The former 'warlords' hunted by U.S. troops and blamed for Somalia’s shocking degeneration into pure chaos are now aided and abetted by the Americans and their Ethiopian cohorts."
http://anti-war.com/justin/?articleid=10238
"Few will mourn Saddam -- a thug enthroned with the help of the CIA and sustained in power for years by the Bush Faction which is now about to kill him. The falling out of thieves ends ever thus. But far more disturbing is the way that the memory of even very recent, very public events can be manipulated and erased for sinister ends: in this case, to justify the mass murder of more than 600,000 innocent people. In the fever dreams of dominance and divine favor that pollute the minds of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, the idea has taken hold that the blood of Saddam Hussein will somehow wash the clotted viscera of dead children from their hands."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=977&Itemid=135
"The military system that Rumsfeld and his precursors created is increasingly dysfunctional and meant only to suit the expensive demands and pretensions of the powerful companies in the military-industrial complex. The emphasis on expensive weaponry is good for the American economy; successful counterinsurgency war costs too little to maintain full employment. It bears scant relationship to the political problems that the U.S. has confronted for decades – and more now than ever."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/kolko5.html
"There is no getting around the fact that conscription is involuntary servitude. Rangel says the draft would ensure that unpopular wars would provoke public opposition, as it eventually did in the Vietnam War. But he conveniently forgets that that war, as well as the Korean War he himself fought in, were started under conscription. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0612g.asp
"Most agree that Mencken's durability represents a triumph of style - a style so thunderous and powerful, explosively funny, withering in its skepticism, rigorous in its commitment to honesty, logic, and truth as he saw it, that even now it's capable of winning the attention of serious people, while raising hackles among the other sort."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1227/p20s01-bogn.html
"One of the most riveting accounts of the catastrophic effects of replacing a gold-based or silver-based currency with paper money comes from Andrew Dickson White (1832 - 1918), the diplomat, author and educator who co-founded Cornell University."
http://www.safehaven.com/article-6594.htm
"Those who may challenge this assessment of Ford's imperial instincts should listen to the commentators on CNN, belaboring the scarce cold commander-in-chief for timidity and lack of zeal in prosecuting the Cold War. By his enemies shall we know him."
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12272006.html
"Yes, it was Gerald R. Ford who took those famously amoral and criminally incompetent backroom operators, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, out of the lower quadrants of the twisted bowels of the Nixon White House and raised them to the highest levels of American government, where, in one form or another, overtly and covertly, they have inflicted their primitive ideology and violent psychodramas on the nation, and the world, for more than three decades."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=975&Itemid=135
"To avoid war in the future, it is likely to be necessary to study the wars of the past and the present, to try to understand better how we get involved in them, the kinds of deceptions leaders use to drum up support for them, the confusion of the 'fog of war' in which action can seem mindless and random, the pitfalls in every military campaign, the unpredictability of battles and campaigns, the destruction involved, the aftermath of 'victory.' I suggest that the more we understand about war, the less eager we will be to engage in it, or even to send the sons and daughters of people we don't know to engage in it."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=10227
"[W]hat about the morality of the entire operation? Where is the morality of killing people who have never attacked the United States and who have done nothing worse than try to defend their country from a wrongful invader? Where is the morality in killing in 'self-defense' when you don’t have a right to be there killing people in the first place? "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0612f.asp
"Top generals who openly opposed increasing the U.S. occupation force in Iraq have either announced their retirements or else have been compelled to crawl and eat their words in public recantations. (This moral cowardice is even more remarkable when you consider how weak, stupid – and deeply unpopular – is the 'commander-in-chief' who has somehow overawed these stalwart soldiers. One can only imagine that some sort of blackmail must be involved.) ... And so in the coming weeks, we will see anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 more troops sent to Iraq – despite the overwhelming public sentiment against such a policy: only 11 percent of Americans support the idea of escalation, as a new CNN poll reports. This is an astounding level of public opposition to any government policy; I can't recall anything like it in almost 40 years of observing American politics and studying American history."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=973&Itemid=135
"In spite of all the senseless deaths of American soldiers because of these lies, the war in Iraq is still being defended by Republican Party loyalists, Religious Right zealots, conservative talk show hosts and their duped listeners, and other apologists for the Bush administration like the warmongers who write for the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review, and RedState.com."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance100.html
"His highly developed visual approach combined with his technical mastery could elevate the most mundane material, and three of his finest films, 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942), 'Casablanca' (1943) and 'Mildred Pierce' (1945) make a virtue of melodrama and sentimentality." [He also directed 'White Christmas' (1954), 'Flamingo Road' (1949), 'The Sea Hawk' (1940), 'Captain Blood' (1935) and 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' (1938). Those alone with 'Casablanca' (1943) and 'Mildred Pierce' (1945) would constitute quite a distinguished filmography, but he made many more fine films, including shorts such as Sons of Liberty.]
http://www.tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=42547
"Harry was constantly kept busy from 1932 till 1939 at Warner Brothers Studios and wrote no less than 149 songs for movies." [He won three Oscars, the last for 'On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe.' Among his other hits are 'I Only Have Eyes for You', 'Chattanooga Choo-Choo' and 'Serenade in Blue'. He also collaborated with Mack Gordon who wrote the lyrics for his music on one of my very favorite bluesy numbers: 'At Last' which was sung so well by Etta James.]
http://www.harrywarrenmusic.com/Harrysbio.html
"In the last years of his life, royalty cheques from TSR, the makers of Dungeons and Dragons, who had licensed the mythos of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series, were enough in themselves to ensure that he lived comfortably."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber#Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
from the IMDb bio page: "She appeared in more than 300 television shows, including episode roles in 'Perry Mason' (1957), 'I Spy' (1965), 'MacGyver' (1985), 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' (1955), and as a regular on 'The Richard Boone Show' (1963) and 'The Virginian' (1962)."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634282/
"He justifies his role with the belief that it was necessary to wage small wars in order to prevent big wars. This culminates in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. My favorite scene in the movie is when Wilson approaches a Mafia boss and threatens to deport him unless he agrees to help the CIA assassinate Fidel Castro. The boss replies that he has lived in America since he was two months old, and talks about how various ethnic groups were motivated by their culture, religion, music, family and tradition. He then asks Wilson what motivates people like him to act the way they do and Wilson responds, 'Our country, and the rest of you are just visiting.' One could sense the influence of the Skull & Bones mentality that the state exists to preserve the position and power of the ruling elite, and that threats must be dealt with by any means necessary. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/bank/bank6.html
"My little attic studio is still under reconstruction, so nothing from my collection this time, but lots from the Podsafe Music Network!"
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=165720
"Secret Honor is one of the great political movies of the last half-century. It offers a conspiratorial view of history, one that most radicals will have no problem embracing, and the script brims with the in-depth research material that Freed is known for."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/12/dvd-review-secret-honor.html
"I've watched the first four, and while I don't know how many more I can watch before the freebies are gone, I'm impressed beyond words at this show."
http://firebringer.blogspot.com/2006/12/heroes.html
"President Gerald Ford, our nation's 38th President, died Tuesday at the age of 93 at his desert home in California. What do you think?."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/57044
"On January 1, 2007, you will probably forget 2006 ever happened. Luckily, I have been shedding massive amounts of blood all year long just to record the whole thing for you. Here are the good parts."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002515.html
Flash animated cartoon" video w/audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/whoopsmastwo.html
"In an unprecedented televised address to the nation last night, President George W. Bush announced a list of his New Year’s resolutions for 2007, telling the American people, 'I am a big believer in abiding by resolutions, as long as they don’t come from the United Nations.' The following is a list of the president’s New Year’s resolutions...."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6661
"In most human activities – though the causal chain may be difficult to perceive – the means determine the ends. No matter how worthy your end, if you use unworthy means you are unlikely to get there. Violence begets violence and violent means will lead to a violent end. Hatred begets hatred. Coercion begets tyranny, and on and on."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=10243
"Nock was, by today's standards, an oddity. He was an individualist, a libertarian. But he did not equate market freedom as market worship. Instead, he agreed in principle with the teachings of Henry George, that land-rent should be the source of public revenue, would check Big Business and economism, and would maximize freedom. But Georgism as a system would require the same "good people" that any system would require to run successfully; otherwise, it would fail."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2041
"Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called 'premium content', typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost." [If this topic interests you I strongly recommend following the link in the body of the blog entry to Peter Gutman's white paper. Cringely offers another point of view in the entry below.]
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/a_cost_analysis.html
"We are poised at the start of a revolution in user-generated content that is actually both useful and valuable. Social networking's ability to create small but measurable markets and new content creation technologies' ability to make cost-effective -- even brilliant -- programming for those new markets will mean more media moguls but smaller and none of those moguls will have a use for DRM OR for Microsoft." [A different point of view from Bruce Schneier's, but still not terribly positive for Microsoft.]
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061229_001403.html
"If Brown ever did read Frantz Fanon, an Algerian leftist revered by revolutionaries in the '60s, he kept quiet about it. But the singer did have a place in the Black Power pantheon, one far more interesting and inspiring than anything Fanon ever wrote. At once rural and urban, iconoclastic and conservative, sacred and profane, both the man and his music evoked a radically transformed world while staying rooted in black American traditions."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117521.html
"The timeless nature of A Christmas Carol undoubtedly stems from the way it entertains while raising up its reader. The four ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge - Jacob Marley, and the Spirits of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come - also visit us. We are redeemed at its end, just as Scrooge is, with a renewed sense of human kindness...."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/24/Opinion/God_bless_this_story_.shtml
"Phooey to Max Raskin and his slurs against Food Network cutie-pie Rachael Ray. I finally caught one of Ray's programs during the holiday, and I'm hooked on this gorgeous gastronomic goddess."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/12/rachael-1-raskin-0.html
"I've been wishing everyone a Happy Zagmuk this year. The fact is that every human culture in anything resembling the temperate zone has had a period of celebration in the middle of the coldest, darkest months, as if to say, 'We're fed up with all of this gloom and snow, and it's time to throw a frigging party and ignore it!' Emphasis on the frigging. Each and every one of those cultures has had a different way, of course, of dignifying what is essentially a middle finger in the face of nature. The earliest such I could find was Zagmuk, the ancient Mesopotamian celebration of the triumph of Marduk over the forces of Chaos."
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