[GAC, part 1]
[GAC, part 0]

I scooped Kip Sullivan -- linking Celinda Lake, the Herndon Alliance, HCAN and GAC first -- but he's done the heavy lifting and delved deeply into Lake's focus grouping that brought us Guaranteed Affordable Choice, and Americans want a system that's uniquely American, and all that rot.

[update 19 jan 2009: oops, i didn't scoop kip sullivan after all; in fact i quoted him in my very first diatribe against gac. ah, the perils of not re-reading one's earlier work before writing newer stuff. my abject apologies to mr sullivan.]

[GAC, part 0]

I read this stuff so you don't have to, but you can dive into the 82-page PDF too if you like. Or here's the earlier version, it's only 39 pages.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

On waking from an opium-induced sleep, so the story goes, Coleridge hurried to capture on paper the fantastical world he had dreamed [or hallucinated, depending on who you ask]. He was rudely interrupted while at this task, and when he returned to it, all was gone but the fragment we have today.