How will we look back on this time? Well, how will you look back. Life expectancy in the UK for a man is 79. I'm 78 and change.
Since the fifth grade, I've known about meanness. Based on the number of bullies at Roosevelt elementary school in Tampa in 1956, I estimated that there might be one bully in any group of 100. (Make that 50 if the group is all male).
Oh, I certainly know that girls can be cruel, but we're talking here about pulling wings off June bugs, not sending notes about cooties.
Now, as I watch footage of grown ups praising some god that I don't recognize, huddled in prayer over taking away food and medicine from poor people so that bigger bombs can be built without billionaires having to chip in, my heart breaks.
This is not my century, boys.
If you're gonna fight, fight with love.
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