In America, It Is Sport That Is

Schoolteachers Seemed Determined To Persuade Me That 'classic' Is A Synonym For 'narcotic'.

So There He Is At Last. Man On The Moon. The Poor Magnificent Bungler! He Can't Even Get To The Office Without Undergoing The Agonies Of The Damned, But Give Him A Little Metal, A Few Chemicals, Some Wire And Twenty Or Thirty Billion Dollars And Vroom! There He Is, Up On A Rock A Quarter Of A Million Miles Up In The Sky.

The Early Commentators Who Put Down The Pre-presidential Roosevelt As An Empty-headed Young Lightweight, All Ambition And No Talent, Now Seem Comically Wrong To A Modern Book-reading, Movie-going, Television-watching, Legend-loving American Public Conditioned To Think Of Him As One Of The Presidential Giants On The Order Of Washington And Lincoln.

The Government Cannot Afford To Have A Country Made Up Entirely Of Rich People, Because Rich People Pay So Little Tax That The Government Would Quickly Go Bankrupt. This Is Why Government Men Always Tell Us That Labor Is Man's Noblest Calling. Government Needs Labor To Pay Its Upkeep.

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