…a “land of the free” that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the “brave” who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.74
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

