We Owned What We Learned Back There;

Pro-choice Supporters Are Often Heard Using The Cool Language Of The Courts And The Vocabulary Of Rights. Americans Who Are Deeply Ambivalent About Abortion Often Miss The Sound Of Caring.

If There's A Single Message Passed Down From Each Generation Of American Parents To Their Children, It Is A Two-word Line: Better Yourself. And If There's A Temple Of Self-betterment In Each Town, It Is The Local School. We Have Worshipped There For Some Time.

On Television, Journalists Now Routinely Appear On Talk-shows-with-an-attitude Where They Are Encouraged To Say What They Think About Something They May Not Have Finished Thinking About.

How Come Pleasure Never Makes It On To... A Dutiful List Of Do's And Don'ts? Doesn't Joy Also Get Soft And Flabby If You Neglect To Exercise It?

Normal Is Getting Dressed In Clothes That You Buy For Work, Driving Through Traffic In A Car That You Are Still Paying For, In Order To Get To A Job That You Need So You Can Pay For The Clothes, Car And The House That You Leave Empty All Day In Order To Afford To Live In It.