I Used To Agree With Kurt Vonnegut,

I Live In The Country, So I Get A Fair Amount Of Exercise. We Heat Our House With Wood, So I Split Wood. We Also Live On A Steep Hill, And I Have To Rake And Put In Cross-stitches To Keep The Road From Washing Out When There's A Big Rain.

The Good And Bad Are All Tangled Up Together. American Popular Music Is Loved Around The World Because Of Its African Rhythm. But That Wouldn't Have Happened If It Wasn't For Slavery.

He [alan Lomax] Started Right Off Trying To Find People Who Could Introduce Folk Songs To City People. He Found A Young Actor Named Burl Ives And Said, "burl, You Know A Lot Of Great Country Songs Learned From Your Grandmother, Don't You Know People Would Love To Hear Them?" He Put On Radio Programs. He Persuaded Cbs To Dedicate "the School Of The Air" For One Year To American Folk Music. He'd Get Some Old Sailor To Sing An Old Sea Shanty With A Cracked Voice. Then He'd Get Me To Sing It With My Banjo.

The Truth Is A Rabbit In A Bramble Patch. All You Can Do Is Circle Around And Say It's Somewhere In There.

Most Conservatives Just Want To Turn Back The Clock To A Time Before The Income Tax - 100 Years Or So. I Would Like To Turn The Clock Back Thousands Of Years To A Time When People Lived In Small Communities And Took Care Of Each Other.