Farmers are becoming an endangered species as entrepreneurs are giving up in despair. Short of clairvoyance, it is utterly an exercise in futility for a young man to pursue farming unless he is well-grounded in the aspects and rigors of rural life. To think otherwise is a triumph of hope over experience. It seems to be human vanity cynically to assess other people s failures and shortcomings while aggrandizing one s own self-righteousness in klieg lighting. Farmers allow Americans to go to work each day with sated appetites and to shop at grocery stores that have shelves laden with food and stacked as high as one can reach.
Farmers deserve a seat among the ultimate arbiters of American business.
He thought he had votes galore. I think the manual counting of ballots from only a few counties in Florida and kicking out the overseas votes is messing around with the process. In the wake of the presidential-election fiasco in Florida, Josef Stalin must be doing handsprings of glee wherever he is. Stalin once said that it wasn t important how anyone voted, but rather the people who counted the votes. It was a hilarious, but pitiful, sight to watch CNN Inside Politics anchorwoman Judy Woodruff beg Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader to drop out of the race.