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Today's Brew ________________ Disturbing

Gang-Tackling the 900-lb Gorilla
Or how to achieve inner peace by adroitly subduing the rampaging beast in
our collective living room

...Similarly, in our human societies, the leaders of the resistance to tyranny receive most of the tyrants' attention. Or more to the point in our partially free American society: those of us who point out the ravages of a bully or would-be tyrant—analogous to the gorilla above—will likely feel that bully's wrath first... just like dealing with the cops in a corrupt town... or the IRS. Moreover, the fear factor among the general population works in several ways to the advantage of the aggressor... [more]

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