America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in t… - Hunter S. Thompson

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that — no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life.

How many times had he stood calmly back there on the duckboards and listened to respectable-looking people talk about raping the hotel penguins?