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Diderot is a Vietnam veteran who has lived abroad and traveled extensively. He is happily retired after many stultifying years of academic prostitution. Diderot is fascinated with the pathetic spectacle of America's determined rush to self-destruction.
(15 comments) SHARE Friday, August 14, 2009 The Commonwealth of Morons
Not much has changed since 1922 when H. L. Mencken described the United States as "the commonwealth of morons."