• TOPICS
• "What the Cynics Fail to Understand..."
• "...is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply." - Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynic
• The cynics "philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of virtue in agreement with nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, health, and fame, and by living a life free from all possessions. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which was natural for humans. They believed that the world belonged equally to everyone, and that suffering was caused by false judgments of what was valuable and by the worthless customs and conventions which surrounded society."
• Why have politicians and dictators bashed cynics (dogs) throughout the ages?
• Is this a bad sign?

• LINKS
• The Cynic's Sanctuary
• http://www.i-cynic.com/whatis.asp
• "Cynics today are habitually castigated by politicians, corporate chieftains and other productive citizens with tidy lawns; they know that we're on to them, so they lump us with the lowest of the low. We're generally cast as the heavies in the black hats, counterproductive miscreants who broil babies when we're not spray-painting obscenities on public monuments. We're portrayed as masters of chicanery and intrigue, untrusting and untrustworthy. Since we're neither leaders nor followers, we're expected to get out of the way -- and the tidy-lawn folks get furious when we don't. Nobody loves a cynic, except maybe another cynic."
• Bush Years: 8 in 8 Minutes
• http://www.truthout.org/video/011809Z
• "Keith Olbermann addresses the eight years of the Bush administration in eight minutes."
• The Metaphor Project
• http://www.metaphorproject.org/
• "The Metaphor Project (MP) offers many free resources for communicating our political messages on this site. Find out how to use language that evokes the best American values when you tell your story."
• "This Land is Your Land" Like Woody Wrote It
• http://www.truthout.org/011909V
• "Seeger, who rode the rails with Guthrie during the Great Depression, led the 500,000 person audience on the mall in singing the song as it was originally written - including verses often left out that address worker's rights.."
• Born Again American
• http://www.bornagainamerican.org/index.html

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