The Sunshine Empire

I’m posting this for no other reason other than just not wanting to be serious for just a moment. And now for something completely different.

“A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt predicted the first decade of the 21st century all the way from the first decade of the 20th. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Some Red Hot Chili Peppers right before you go to bed performing the Stevie Wonder masterpiece.

“I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday’s refugees [...]