I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You. " My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!
I face my demons and embrace my fate.
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.