Ingredients: 13 oz vodka, 1 liter cola, (pepsi, coca cola...), 6-10 scoops iced tea. . . . Add all ingredients to a punch bowl.

Together with pride there will naturally arise an unadvisable and unconvincible spirit.

The past twenty years have seen their share of soothsayers ready to predict with conviction one extreme or another of the alternative futures I have presented.

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