If You Choose The Lesser

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

The Only True Aging Is The Erosion Of One's Ideals.

Full Medicare-for-all, Free Choice Of Doctor And Hospital: That Comes In Sixty To Seventy Percent Without Even Further Explanation. And If You Ever Explained It, Given All The Trouble People Are Having Qualifying And Not Qualifying For All These Healthcare So-called Insurance Plans, It Would Go Up Even Higher.

A Citizenship Of Wholesale Delegation And Abdication To Public And Private Power Systems, Such As Prevails Now, Makes Such Periodic Checks As Elections Little More Than Rituals.

Families Are Incubators For Citizen Activists.