[Barry the Sprout]

I remember being at a conference for Poltical Science students in Washington a few years ago and one of the American students saying that in her view the world could become a better place if America just ran everything. It was at this point that I backed away and started talking to someone else. Fortunately not many people agreed with her, but the fact that people think that is pretty scary.

Completely off topic, I remember I made some girl cry on that conference when I started quoting Remarque to her and saying I thought dying for your country as an abstract construct, as opposed to the principles you believe it embodies or the people who live in it, was pretty sick. Those were the days...