Pigs Get Fat And Hogs Get Slaughtered.

During A Recent Panel On The Numerous Failures Of American Journalism, I Proposed That Almost All Stories About Government Should Begin: “look Out! They're About To Smack You Around Again!

I Think Provincialism Is An Endemic Characteristic With Mankind, I Think Everybody Everywhere Is Provincial, But It Is Particularly Striking With Texans, And We Tend To Be Very Texcentric.

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

We've Got The Emphasis On The Wrong Syllable When It Comes To Crime In This Country. The Fbi Says Burglary And Robbery Cost U.s. Taxpayers $3.8 Billion Annually. Securities Fraud Alone Costs Four Times That. And Securities Fraud Is Nothing To The Cost Of Oil Spills, Price-fixing, And Dangerous Or Defective Products. Fraud By Health-care Corporations Alone Costs Us Between $100 Billion And $400 Billion A Year. No Three-strikes-and-you're-out For These Guys. Remember The S&l Scandal? $500 Billion.

One Function Of The Income Gap Is That The People At The Top Of The Heap Have A Hard Time Even Seeing Those At The Bottom. They Practically Need A Telescope. The Pharaohs Of Ancient Egypt Probably Didn't Was A Lot Of Time Thinking About The People Who Build Their Pyramids, Either.