[elbucko]

As the Soviet Union experience showed, everything can look almost normal right up to the end... and then all of a sudden, a cascade of infrastructure failures stops everything in its tracks.

Like California? I think so. Men are begging to shrug off the yoke of feminist politics practiced by the "feminist" politicians in the state.

An example: A few days ago, Gray Davis defended his governorship by accusing one of his opponents, Bill Simon as:"Being against gun control, offshore drilling and pro-choice". In general, these three issues are more compelling to women than men. In other words, Davis was saying he was the candidate of the females of California and if you throw me out the men will be in charge.

Perhaps it is time women began to rethink their responsibilities to the Republic under the Nineteenth Amendment.

[Nick Danger]

Like California?

Yes. I didn't use the California Electricity follies as an example of long-term corrosive infrastructure failure because I figured I'd just get flamed by people telling me it's the greenies, or the NIMBY's, or Barbra Streisand. All that is true, but it also requires that people who can see beyond their noses stop giving a damn whether the NIMBY's win or not. Nobody ever wanted a power plant in their back yard, but the things got built anyway. Daddy built them, because Daddy knew that the screaming brats did not understand the consequences of not having them. So he built them anyway, for the brats' own good. Daddy is gone now. He stopped caring ten years ago whether the brats freeze in the dark. There's a lot of that going on, all over.