There is an immutable fact about history – if you weren’t there, if you didn’t personally know and speak to the history makers, you can have no irrefutable, complete evidence of their intent. You can know concrete things, like dates. But at some level you can’t know, beyond a shadow of doubt, everything they thought, and more importantly, why.
The concept of corporate personhood was created more than 100 years ago and ever since has been the bane of private citizens. At each challenge judges uphold and strengthen the concept. And the moves aren’t ancient history. Can you say unlimited campaign financing?
There is no shortage of Americans full of crackpot ideas and imagined conspiracies. They’re usually part of an unknown cast preaching to like-minded goobs. But occasionally someone with a not-so-unknown name takes to the bloody pulpit.
When asked what her greatest claim to fame was, Kim Kardashian said, “I’m the girl with the fat ass.” Now that’s fresh and funny, yet scathingly truthful. This is a woman who knows her place in the universe.
I still dream of the days when I mustered the strength to pop someone’s head like a zit, to just let the vitriol fly and let the pus-covered words land where they may. That day has come.