Failure Is Its Own Reward

Failure is Its Own RewardThe United States are destined either to surmount the gorgeous history of feudalism, or else prove the most tremendous failure of time.--Walt Whitman, Democratic VistasWelcome to 1976, Year of the Turkey. As fife, drum and flag combos with chili sauce on their bandages march through the shopping malls of our fair land, I am here to say a few words about how everything and everybody has bombed, flunked, stiffed, flopped and otherwise gone down the tube. I'm talking about...