This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
When I get in deep water, I prefer to announce that I'm in over my head.
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.