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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Friday, June 03, 2005
BetterVegas: The little engine that won't... The Las Vegas Monorail is failing, of course. It's in the wrong place. There's a story in this morning's Las Vegas Review-Journal about how spectacularly it is failing and what might be done to stave off the inevitable municipal buy-out, to be followed by the ultimate shame-faced dismantlement--which will be blamed, unjustly, on municipal mismanagement and not on the idiots who built a mass transit system in a horribly stupid location. Anyway, I thought this comment was choice: Said Walker: "Many of the people use the system as a tourist destination itself. When you compare the cost of riding the monorail to other established venues, $3 is a bargain to ride the system and see the Strip from a new vantage point."Except that for much of the ride the portion of the Strip you're seeing is the parking lot side. Even so, Walker is undoubtedly right: Much of the traffic is novelty traffic--which comes down to a way to kill time in Las Vegas for a less-than-astronomical number of dollars per hour. This may be a feature--my son and I have played Spy Versus Spy games on the Mandalay Tram to keep him out of the frolicking arcades--but it doesn't sound like the stuff of a proud advertising campaign: "Give your fanny-pack a break from gambling!" "Waste time on the cheap!" "Vegas like you've never seen it before!" "Catch it before the voters catch on!" |
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