So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.