"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
Estimates for the Rally to Restore Sanity are around 215,000. Beck got 87,000 for his rally. So that means that now the media and politicians will stop pandering to the Tea Party fanatics and start listening to “real Americans,” right?