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Shakespeare

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Wed Dec-22-04 07:01 PM
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11. Things like that get to me, too.

I had family in town (San Francisco) for a visit a couple of weeks ago, and we'd stopped at the Rincon building to eat lunch at the dim sum restaurant Yank Sing. After lunch, I took them out to the outer hallways to look at the WPA murals, and when I got to the one about the Four Freedoms, the first of which is Freedom from Fear, I lost it.

I choked up and started crying and almost couldn't stop, because all I could think about was how far we've devolved from FDR's days when all had to fear was fear itself. Our current "leader" operates under a completely contrary worldview, and it breaks my heart.

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