Dark Bilious Vapors

But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors....
--Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditation I

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01/17/2005: Also from Ironic Times


The Inaugural Schedule:

6-9 AM: Citizens along the parade route are interrogated and strip searched.
10 AM: Attorney General John Ashcroft leads the Abu Ghraib Tabernacle Choir in "Onward Christian Soldiers."
10:30 AM: Colin Powell interrogated and strip searched.
11 AM: All Iraqi election officials granted asylum, interrogated and strip searched.
Noon: Dick Cheney sworn in, exorcised.
1 PM: Grand jury investigating Tom DeLay sent to Guantanamo for questioning.
2 PM: U.S. Poet Laureate reads "Oh Captain, My Captain," specially rewritten as a tribute to Ken Lay.
3 PM: The "Getting Tough on Corporate Crime" float, featuring Martha Stewart in stocks, passes reviewing stand.
4 PM: Bush takes oath, gives speech, "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do to You, When the Only Thing You Have to Fear is Your Country, Itself."
5-Midnight: Pharmaceutical Industry Soiree, Energy Industry Banquet, Insurance Companies Gala, U. S. Chamber of Commerce Bacchanal.


Len on 01.17.05 @ 08:52 AM CST



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