Perhaps.

But at a mere 238 years this coming weekend, we've been around nowhere near long enough to have copyrighted it.

Campaign finance for political office is primarily acquired, above board, from corporations. At the very least, lets not kid ourselves about it.

How about we allow the corporations to tell the politicians what to do only as long as they remain religion-neutral.

But to be fair,

Target's the only place he could find Archer Farms Lobster and Cheese Bites.

Godmanit!

Don't eat the chicken skin.

Don't eat the french fried potaters.

Now the sausage skin falls out of favor, too? Cheese and rice... it's beginning to look like I can either live fifty years like a medieval king, or 80 like a monk.

Unfortunately, to a man, the cellar denizens burst into flames on the beach enroute to collect the water.

Yeah.

Make a documentary or something.

Within and without social media, people, events, results, and happenstance conspire to alter your mood each and every day... something that cannot happen without your tacit permission. Grow a thicker skin and remember that yelling at that jerk in traffic means you've allowed a complete stranger power over your behavior.

If giving up social media is too big a first step, don't go in with your eyes wide shut: you are the product, not the customer.

Not that continued attention and oversight are ever unnecessary for a voting populace, but hey, there are still checks and balances.

But for real, how much help were the King's horses expected to be?

Get your facts first, then distort them as you please.__Samuel Clemens

People dismiss emergency evacuation notices every hurricane, and some wind up on their rooftops awaiting rescue at our expense. The folks in this tribe are primarily looters, without the resources to leave(poor and friendless), or bad risk assessment analysts. We still send helicopters for them.

It is unlikely on the order of direct that a consumer denied sugar in his beverage will be unable to cover his sugar ration in some other readily available fashion.

Remember, every intrusion will sound good to some segment of the population.

but how long would you want to hang around the scene of the crime?

It seems like most folks, who happen across a revenue stream from which a pinstriped suit is one possible future, would be best served by a quick-in/quick-out strategy.