Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Reality is not optional.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.