Originally Posted by Fireball2
that things would be fine in America, secure in your knowledge that nothing would rock the foundations of our blessed home?


Truly ... no. The only time I recall hope and optimism was that period when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union fell apart. We'd lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation for long time before that. There was a moment, a collective sigh of relief. Didn't last long.

I've always lived in what I perceived as a brief lull between disasters waiting for the other shoe to fall. I reckon I always will. Optimism is for fools living in a world of denial and delusion.

Tom


Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.

Here be dragons ...