The Rich, Like Well Brought

Most Of The Ladies And Gentlemen Who Mourn The Passing Of The Nation's Leaders Wouldn't Know A Leader If They Saw One. If They Had The Bad Luck To Come Across A Leader, They Would Find Out That He Might Demand Something From Them, And This Impertinence Would Put An Abrupt And Indignant End To Their Wish For His Return.

Power Broken Into A Thousand Pieces Can Be Hidden And Disowned. If No Individual Or Institution Possesses The Authority To Act Without Of Everybody Else In The Room, Then Nobody Is At Fault If Anything Goes Wrong.

Further Strengthenings Of The Self-centered Instinct For Survival Recruit Even Greater Numbers Of People Into Some Sort Of Ring Of Fellowship (church Or Gender, Red State Or Blue) By Populating The Terra Incognita Outside The Ring With Enough Barbarians To Verify The Existence Of A Civilization Within--to Define The Preferred Stock By What, As All Good People Agree, It Decidedly Is Not.

Unlike Any Other Business In The United States, Sports Must Preserve An Illusion Of Perfect Innocence.

The Leading Cause Of Death Is Birth.