Wife is a court clerk, and she made me drive her to the courthouse so she could process some mail. No one else was around as superior court wasn't in session.
So, big empty court room......
Dare I sit in the Judges chair?
Dare I play with his gavel?
Dare I yell "Objection!" from the defence's podium?
Dare I yell" Over ruled! Sit down Mr. Wright or I will penalize you"
I dared, and it was fun.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
