The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth...er. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organi...ze their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would learn to write, 't is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must fr...equent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »