As the sun sets on the Empire

...and so much is changing so fast; as the American Dream fades and we trade away our liberties for costlier securities more imagined than real; as we try to balance our shriveling blessings against increasingly burdensome liabilities, remember the words of Utah Phillips:


“The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears.

Freedom is something you assume,
then you wait for someone to try to take it away.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...”