Canadian Customs is easy
heck, I'm in Toronto right now until Thursday. Canadian customs is polite, efficient, friendly.
Returning to the paranoid states of murica, OTOH, is an exercise in mouth control in the presence of mosty asshole cops with attitude.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
Canadian Customs is easy
heck, I'm in Toronto right now until Thursday. Canadian customs is polite, efficient, friendly.
Returning to the paranoid states of murica, OTOH, is an exercise in mouth control in the presence of mosty asshole cops with attitude.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914