I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.