Decency

It gets harder and harder to find.

Take these degenerates, for instance. There's an old saying even children know of: "Say something nice or say nothing at all." One would imagine that people would be a bit more humble and civil in the face of black death, which even now creeps at their threshold as it creeps towards us all.

If even death itself commands no respect, we as a people have little to show as proof of our worth.

Even those who endeavored to honor President Reagan could not do so properly. Thousands of shabbily dressed people, wearing everything from shorts and sandals to ridiculous logo T-shirts, filed by his coffin in the Rotunda. One simply does not take part in funerary ceremonies looking as if one has just rolled out of bed.

The Old Oligarch witnessed some perhaps well-intentioned but nonetheless lamentable actions himself.