RAW: I find it all an amusing clown show, since the same people will continue owning and running the country no matter who holds the nominal position of "president." Frankly, I hope the voters' alleged "choice" will fall to Gore and Bush, since everybody knows they are both Lying Bastards. You see, every election in my lifetime has seemed to me a choice between two Lying Bastards, but this year I think the whole country will share that view for the first time. Gore and Bush have changed their stories about the extent of their illegal drug use so often that I don't think anybody with more than a half inch of forhead can believe anything they say. How will the public at large react to a choice between two known and proven Lying Bastards? Will they ignore the voting booths, like me and everybody I know, or will they get pissed off enough to burn down the voting booths? I don't know, but it should prove more entertaining than most elections.

Mr. Greg: What is your opinion of the WTO's recent decision to admit China?

RAW: Kipling said it for me:
At the end of the fight
Is a tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased
And an epitaph drear:
"A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East."

Learn Chinese. Translators will earn a bundle.

Mr. Greg: Almost everyone I know who is on-line or uses computers complains about Microsoft's monopoly. Even the US government has slapped them silly. What strategy would you recommend in terms of helping to break their stranglehold on information and computer technologies?

RAW: I think it will happen organically. Several million bright young lads and lasses will [a] break every stranglehold and [b] unleash new software and hardware that Gates can't compete with. One of those several million will get rich enough to become for a while the new Bill Gates that everybody hates and fears, but only for a little while, and then they'll be replaced by a newer revolution in technology.

Mr. Greg: Throughout your career you have consistently challenged rigid thinking and missionary morality. What advice can you offer to people in their teens and twenties who want to "fight the system" in an effective and efficient manner?

RAW: I regard the counter-culture as a pretty sad spectacle. I would urge them to learn to think before they act, and to think long and hard, and to think in concrete specifics. Specifically, I recommend intense training in general semantics and neurolinguistic programming.

Mr. Greg: Who do you think is the greatest American political or cultural agitator of the Twentieth century?

RAW: It would appear immodest to reply.

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