Michael D. Setty, owner and Principal of Carquinez Associates, is a transportation consultant with more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of public transit planning, finance, administration, and operations.
If you see Darth Vader at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, you should know that something is wrong. That's because our favorite movie villain is a brainchild of George Lucas, who releases Star Wars through 20th Century Fox, not Paramount, the home of Star Trek.
Also, don't go looking for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck at Disney World. Bugs and Daffy work for Warner Brothers, not Disney!
Also don't expect coherent, rational national security and economic security plans in the Bush Administration's cartoon world. LIke Wile E. Coyote, they think they can "Catch The Security Roadrunner" by pursuing the same sort of tired, shop-worn, ineffective, and just plain wrong Republican strategies tried and found wanting in the Hoover and Reagan Administrations.
1. Corrupt the young; Get them overly interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
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