Idiot Wind

This post is dedicated to the incurious majority on this date, in the House of Representatives of the Congress of The United States of America.

"Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skullFrom the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe"
Bob Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWLjgPTR_c&feature=related 


The original meaning/use of the word "Idiot"

"An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private--as opposed to public--affairs. Idiocy was the natural state of ignorance into which all persons were born and its opposite, citizenship, was effected through formalized education. In Athenian democracy, idiots were born and citizens were made through education . ...Today, educators and political scientists increasingly resurrect this terminology's etymological origins in order to discuss a growing major problem with modern American republican democracy: self-centeredness."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_(Athenian_democracy)

And today's wind:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2560pcs/pdf/BILLS-112hr2560pcs.pdf


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./temp/~bd8Nls:@@@D&summ2=m&/home/LegislativeData.php 









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