I Don't Play Golf. Mark Twain Is

What Are We Going To Do About The Injuries To Our Country Still Going On Right In Front Of Our Eyes? It Gets Me Out Of Bed In The Morning. It Makes Me Mad Enough To Get My Blood Up And Want To Get Out There With [mark] Twain And Get It Said And That Is Why I Still Hit The Road And Go Out On The Stage And Keep Working At Staying Alive.

Politics Has Become Incendiary. People Don't Find It So Funny Now So I Have To Be Careful, But I Have To Wake Them Up With Some Truths And The Truths I Aim At Them Are Over 100 Years Old. Facts That No One Can Dispute.

If We Want To Understand The Actions Of A Man In The Early 1860's, Put Yourself Back There In His Shoes. As A Young Man He Began Piloting Steamboats On The Mississippi, A Job He Loved And Wanted To Do The Rest Of His Life, He Said. The Civil War Ended Traffic On The River And His Job. He Wrote About It In A History Of A Campaign That Failed. He Said: "i Joined The Confederacy, Served For Two Weeks, Deserted, And The Confederacy Fell." His Attachment To The Southern Ideal Of Slavery Does Not Appear Very Sturdy.

I Developed A Resistance To Authority. Not To Discipline - I Learned That. But To Authority. I Like To Think For Myself. And I Like To Cause Trouble.

Why Do I Keep Performing At My Age? What Else Am I Going To Do? Play Golf? I Tried That Years Ago And All I Did Was Cuss. I Can Do That Without The Walk, Cuss At Congress And Let [mark]twain Do It. "imagine That You Were An Idiot. And Then Imagine That You Were A Member Of Congress. Wait - I've Repeated Myself."