"The Good Old Days"
by Edward Martin III

America’s old people pretended they were perfect. They passed -- with clear consciences -- laws forbidding their own youthful indiscretions. This same convenient forgetfulness prevented them from remembering how effective laws had stopped them, so they were the only people surprised when the laws proved just as effective now as they had been in the old days.

the end

© 2004 Edward Martin III

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