Politics
2004 Election: Kerry or Cobb, but not Camejo
"Then look at me. I'm a cracker. Ugly. No family. Daddy used to beat me up. I never finished high school — I can't hardly read and write. I'm diselxic, or whatever they call it. You ever wonder what happens to people who can't read and write? In your fucking beautiful Net world with all its fucking data? No, you never thought of that, did you? If I found a place for myself, it was in the teeth of people like you." — Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
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