Idiots Don't Know They're Idiots,

Yes, She Is The Fruit That Will Sustain Me And Yes, She Brings A Rain That I Know Can Chill But It Is A Rain So Sweet And Sings A Song My Soul Insists That I Follow, If I Would Exist As More Than I Have Ever, Ever Been If My Mother Calls It Evil, Then I Embrace The Sin

What I Found Fascinating Was Just How Quickly The Best Of The Young Negro League Players Were Drafted Into The Major Leagues Once Branch Rickey Broke The Color Line By Hiring Jackie Robinson. It Was Clear That All Of The Major League Owners Already Knew The Talents Of The Black Ballplayers That They Had Refused To Let Into Their League.

When We Think Of War, The Tendency Is To Picture Young Soldiers Only In Their Military Roles. To A Large Extent This Dehumanizes The Soldiers And Makes It Easier For Society To Commit Them To Combat.

America Believes What's Good For Us Is Good For The World. It's Very Difficult To Understand That That's Not Necessarily True.

I Joined The Army On My Seventeenth Birthday, Full Of The Romance Of War After Having Read A Lot Of World War I British Poetry And Having Seen A Lot Of Post-world War Ii Films. I Thought The Romantic Presentations Of War Influenced My Joining And My Presentation Of War To My Younger Siblings.