Canada Is Not So Much A Country

I Know Of No Wars Started By Anyone To Impose Lack Of Religion On Someone Else. We Have Lethal Sunni V Shia, Catholic Against Protestant, But No Agnostic Suicide Bombers Attack Crowded Atheist Pubs.

Reagan Was A Flesh And Blood Version Of Any Other Mute National Emblem, Say The Statue Of Liberty. Everyone Knows What She Represents, But No One Would Dream Of Asking Her Opinion.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

Reagan Is The Only Man To Take The Presidency As A Part-time Job, A Means Of Filling Up The Otherwise Empty Hours Of Retirement.

Even I Would Find A Book About My Life Pretty Dull.