If [bush's] Successors Don't Screw It Up,

Consider The Oddity Of Those Drug Commercials On Television. Fifteen Seconds Of The Purported Therapeutic Effort, Followed By About 45 Seconds Of A Rapidly Muttered List Of Horrific Possible Side Effects. When The Ad Is Over, I Can't Remember A Thing About What The Pill Is Supposed To Do, Except Perhaps Cause Nausea, Liver Damage, Projectile Vomiting, A Nasty Rash, A Four-hour Erection, And Sudden Death. Sudden Death Is My Favorite Because There Is Something Comical About It Being A Side Effect. What Exactly Is The Main Effect In That Case? Relief From Abdominal Bloating?

Don't Touch My Junk, You Airport Security Goon - My Package Belongs To No One But Me, And Do You Really Think I'm A Nigerian Nut Job Preparing For My 72-virgin Orgy By Blowing My Johnson To Kingdom Come?

I Don't Really Care What A Public Figure Thinks. I Care About What He Does. Let God Probe His Inner Heart.

You Can Have The Most Advanced And Efflorescent Of Cultures. Get Your Politics Wrong, However, And Everything Stands To Be Swept Away. This Is Not Ancient History. This Is Germany 1933... Politics Is The Moat, The Walls, Beyond Which Lie The Barbarians. Fail To Keep Them At Bay, And Everything Burns.

Baseball Is A Slow, Boring, Complex, Cerebral Game That Doesn't Lend Itself To Histrionics. You "take In" A Baseball Game, Something Odd To Say About A Football Or Basketball Game, With The Clock Running And The Bodies Flying.