I Like Bach. I Like Randy Newman.

Liberalism Is A Religion. Its Tenets Cannot Be Proved, Its Capacity For Waste And Destruction Demonstrated. But It Affords A Feeling Of Spiritual Rectitude At Little Or No Cost.

We All Die In The End, But There's No Reason To Die In The Middle.

I Examined My Liberalism And Found It Like An Addiction To Roulette. Here, Though The Odds Are Plain, And The Certainty Of Loss Apparent To Anyone With A Knowledge Of Arithmetic, The Addict, Failing Time And Again, Is Convinced He Yet Is Graced With The Power To Contravene Natural Laws. The Roulette Addict, When He Invariably Comes To Grief, Does Not Examine Either The Nature Of Roulette, Or Of His Delusion, But Retires To Develop A New System, And To Scheme For More Funds.

The Pursuit Of Fashion Is The Attempt Of The Middle Class To Co-opt Tragedy. In Adopting The Clothing, Speech, And Personal Habits Of Those In Straitened, Dangerous, Or Pitiful Circumstances, The Middle Class Seeks To Have What It Feels To Be The Exigent And Nonequivocal Experiences Had By Those It Emulates.

A Liberal Pretending To Be A Conservative? That's Like A Straight Person Pretending To Be Gay To Get Greater Acceptance.