Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.