And Justice for All

American Dreaming

I am so not the person who writes a speech, such as the one seen in Good Will Hunting where Mat Damon rants about why he wouldn’t want to work for the CIA. I am not the guy who writes a speech, such as the one seen in Scent of a Woman, where Al Pacino explains why if he were younger, he would take a flame thrower to this place. A Baird man. What does that mean? I am not the guy to speak these scripts either, so I am not going to be Captain Kirk dramatically giving you the moral of this space opera you just watched.

Risk, Risk is our business!

But I can quote a few things.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

If a clod is washed away… What is a clod, precisely? Do people pick clods up and throw them into the water? What would have…