Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.