Calling George Bush Shallow Is

The Recent Death Of Gene Mccarthy Reminded Me Of A Lesson I Spent A Long, Long Time Unlearning, So Now I Have To Re-learn It. It's About Political Courage And Heroes, And When A Country Is Desperate For Leadership. There Are Times When Regular Politics Will Not Do, And This Is One Of Those Times.

Many A Time Freedom Has Been Rolled Back - And Always For The Same Sorry Reason: Fear.

I Think Of Texas As The Laboratory For Bad Government.

The Libertarians, Of Whom I'm Rather Fond, Are Running Harry Browne. Libertarians Are, Just As They Claim, Principled And Consistent - They Believe In Individual Liberty. Commendable As They Are, And Despite Their Reliability As Allies In Civil Liberties Struggles, You May Notice That Libertarians Sometimes Prove That A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, And That There Is A Difference Between Logic And Wisdom.

The Pyramids Were Built For Pharaohs On The Happy Theory That They Could Take Their Stuff With Them. Versailles Was Built For Kings On The Theory That They Should Live Surrounded By The Finest Stuff. The Mall Of America Is Built On The Premise That We Should All Be Able To Afford This Stuff. It May Be A Shallow Culture, But It's By-god Democratic. Sneer If You Dare; This Is Something New In World History.