>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Before labor was regulated in this country, self governing business men enslaved other self governed men. How is this an improvement?
As banking regulations were removed over the past few decades, self governing bankers defrauded millions of Americans. How is this an improvement?


I'd disagree. It wasn't labor regulation that freed the slaves in a country that claimed all men were created equal.

Also this "deregulation" didn't happen only under Dubya, it began in the 1970s with the Marquette decision and increased every decade since, trading one set of old regulations for a set of new ones. Hardly as simple as calling it "deregulation", but whatever.

On the Road has been described as the defining novel of the so-called Beat Generation, a disparate group of poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians who shared certain broad philosophical affinities. By far the most popular of Kerouac’s works, it strikingly portrays a mysterious, semi-nomadic subculture dramatically at variance with the conformist and materialistic American culture of the 1950s.

In late 2002, Jim Irsay offered to exhibit the Scroll across the United States. The official tour of the Kerouac Scroll began in Orlando in January of 2004 and is scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009. In addition to Orlando, it has been exhibited at Emory University in Atlanta; Marquette University in Milwaukee; University of Iowa Museum of Art; Las Vegas Public Library; Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, San Francisco Public Library, Denver Public Library and the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It has also been exhibited in Rome, Italy at the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo.