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{About Bill In Exile}

I'm Scott and I'm a New Yorker now living in Seattle and Bill is my oldest friend serving an almost 8 year sentence in federal prison for more than five years for selling Crystal Meth. Bill has a new release date and he is now scheduled to get out of prison on July 24, 2010.

Bill in Exile originally contained letters written between Bill and me while Bill was in prison as well as a bunch of other shit but Bill has, as of late, opted out of contributing and I've just been too lazy to change the name of the blog.
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Archive for November, 2008

THE STORY CONTINUES

{Posted in Music, Video on November 30th, 2008 by Scott }

If the horns in this don't get ALL UP IN YA then…well, then yer just fucking dead.

That's all.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

{Posted in Boys, Butts, Gear, My Next Possible Future Boyfriend on November 30th, 2008 by Scott }

There's more boys playing with their balls after the jump.

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YEAH! — WHAT DRIFTGLASS SAID

{Posted in Blog Love, Politics on November 30th, 2008 by Scott }

"Both Andrew Sullivan and the whelping box full of squirrely wingtards he mocks share a common delusion: that Conservatism is essentially the whore with the heart of gold.

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Sullivan's transgression is the greater because he damned well should have known better, and because even after it has all gone horribly up in flames right before his eyes he still doesn't even have the pen-and-ink courage to admit the truth: that Bush was not some aberration of Conservatism, but its apotheosis.

That before Bush and Rove, there was DeLay.

Before DeLay, Gingrich.

Before Gingrich, Atwater.

Before Atwater, Nixon.

Before Nixon, Strom Thurmond.

Before Thurmond, hell, there was Jefferson Davis."

Driftglass in a must read post titled The Dolt-Stoss™ in which he comments on wingnuts in general and people like Sully in particular who would blame all of conservatism's woes on either Bush's betrayal of conservative "principles" {Sully} or a "left wing conspiracy" fronted by the "liberal media" and abetted by the "elites" {the wingnuts favorite meme}.

The only person I'd add to Driftglass' list would be Joe McCarthy for it was McCarthy who so successfully mixed the toxic elements of greed and selfishness with hate and bigotry and then stirred them together with the No Nothing's deeply ingrained paranoia and rampant inferiority complex that helped produce the image of today's conservative.

Conservatism is, at it's heart, simply what it has always been: a political philosophy designed to excuse and promote the individuals inherent greed and selfishness or one designed to provide institutional force to hate and bigotry. Or both.

But really nothing more. And certainly not a political philosophy with a heart of gold.

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