If You Don't Turn On

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

In The Meantime The Big Corporations Are Fleeing America For Tax Havens And Places Like Ireland, Luxembourg And The Grand Cayman Islands; The Rich Are Finding More Tax Loopholes To Expect; So When Are The People Going To Basically Roll Up Their Sleeves And Say, We've Had Enough, We're Going To Recapture Congress.

For Almost Seventy Years The Life Insurance Industry Has Been A Smug Sacred Cow Feeding The Public A Steady Line Of Sacred Bull.

When I Go Up There, I See Coal Lobbyists, Oil Lobbyists, Natural Gas Lobbyists, Nuclear Power Lobbyists, Somehow They Think That's Where The Action Is In Congress.

One Time When I Was Nine Or Ten Years Old, I Came Home From School...and My Dad Said To Me, 'well, Ralph, What Did You Learn In School Today? Did You Learn How To Believe Or Did You Learn How To Think?' So, I'm Saying To Myself, 'what's The Difference Between The Two?'.