There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

...the crazy never die.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.