James Joyce said that since “Finnegan’s Wake” took him seventeen years to write, the reader should damn well spend at least five years reading it. 

If truth is beauty and beauty truth, then how does one explain Picasso? 

If the universe is unbegun and unending but the fourth dimension is hemmed in by finite time is it conceivable to think of eternity as unbegun, unending? 

What if the Democrats said the hell with FDR and his big government and de-legislated all of his projects, would that mean that farmlands and the deep south would go back to reading by kerosene lamps, and till by horse and plow, all the bridges and schools constructed by the WPA would self-destruct, Florida would give back to the alligators, without its coffers filled with social security checks, would Gates and Trump be anybody of note without the protection of the Federal Reserve, what to do with all the workers hurt on the job and no compensation, would all welfare mothers be begging in the streets in behalf of their children, would there still be a sprawling middle class? Ted Kennedy would have a heart attack. The conservatives would cry “Free at last!” If old time journalists had ink in their veins, does this mean today’s journalists have microchips in their brains and TV reporters with video-sound bites in their rumps? 

If justice is traditionally blind how is that justices open their eyes to political persuasion? 

Political contributions should be but once a year with the understanding that they must get by on 25% of the Salvation Army’s take during Christmas. 

Who would gamble on Dean taking the south like Grant took Richmond? 

If Creationism is superior to Evolution how is it both stick us with humanity — upright apes? 

Did you know that philosophy begins and ends with education? 

What good is a widescreen TV if left with the choice of heads lopped off or images fattened? 

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