memory lane...

salvaged from back in the day...

"I don't know what I'm going to do but I have a vague dream of going into politics. Why is it that the pick of the young Englishmen from Oxford and Cambridge go into politics and in the U.S.A. we leave it to the muckers? - raised in the ward, educated in the assembly and sent to Congress, fat-paunched bundles of corruption, devoid of 'both ideas and ideals' as the debaters used to say.... Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise