Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

C'mon baby light for me!

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

I feel like a tick on a dog.