Progressive (idea)

2001-06-09T03:02:03Z

The term progressive has had several meanings. It first was used to describe the 19th century reformers (of all parties) who sought to curb the corruption which was widespread in government (more so than today.) The term progressive generally is applied only to someone who is left of center. Jesse Ventura, though certainly a reformer, could never be considered a progressive. The progressive label as it is used today started as an alternative to the tainted label of liberal. Increasingly, however, it has come to mean someone to the left of liberals, what Europeans would call a social democrat.

summer (idea)

2001-06-08T14:25:06Z

Summer, that awful wonderful time in our youth when we make, break, destroy and live. That period of heat, both meteorological and biological when we explore that chasm between the genders. We experiment with self-abuse, embracing it with our indestructibility as only we can. We all plan to fall in love, we all plan to spend exciting nights that we will never remember, we all plan to live like the movies, damn the consequences, full speed ahead, depravity, debauchery the watchwords of youth. Here's to summer. To cold beer, beautiful girls, to hits from the hash pipe, to racing along the coast at 90 miles an hour in a car only a broke college student could love, to falling in love with someone whose name I will never remember, to drinking till it hurts, to hurting, to writing poetry on the beach, to making a fool out of myself, to living this strange dream, to no regrets.

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