I once had a history prof explain simple democracy like this: "Eventually, democracy boils down to two wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu."
Men don't believe in a devil now, As their fathers used to do; They reject one creed because it's old For another because it's new To be heard in home, in church, in state, to the earth’s remotest bound, If the devil by a unanimous vote is nowhere to be found? There's not a print of his cloven foot, Nor a fiery dart from his bow, To be found in the earth or air today! At least—they declare it is so! But who is it mixes the fatal draught That palsies heart and brain, And loads the bier of each passing year With its hundred thousand slain. But who blights the bloom of the land today; With the fiery breath of hell? If it isn't the devil that does the work, Who does? Won't somebody tell? Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint? Who spreads the net for his feet? Who sows the tares in the world's broad field. Where the Saviour sows his wheat? We are told he does not go about as a roaring lion now, But whom shall we hold responsible for the everlasting row Won’t somebody step to the front forthwith, and make his bow and show How the frauds and the crimes of the day spring up, for surely we want to know. If the devil is voted not to be, Is the verdict, therefore, true? Some one is surely doing the work The devil was thought to do. They may say the devil has never lived, They may say the devil is gone; But simple people would like to know Who carries the business on? By Alfred J. Hough
We treat you like family..... So does that mean you will start yelling at me for something that happened 15 years ago?
That's like the boss that calls in an employee for "downsizing". "I know I told you we treated our employees like family, but in the words of my second wife ......."
Announcer-"There's a routine ground ball THROUGH THE LEGS OF THE THIRD BASEMAN! That should be an err".
