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It's often been said that ignorance is bliss, but I submit that bliss is ignorance, for in order to be truly, blissfully happy, one must be ignorant of the world as it really is.

Do you ever defy gravity, when no one is around? Or wonder why the laws of nature, only seem to bring you down? Can you count the stars at midnight, and join them in the dawn? Can you answer all these questions, I been asking for so long. Good mornin' America, how are ya? Say don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the child you bore and then forgot, grew up in a parking lot, but I know what you do not, For I can defy gravity when no one is around. I can taste the moon and stars and never...

Chapter II: The Innocents Abroad The morning after his father’s body was found, Daniel Larkin knocked on our door a few minutes after dawn. I had hardly been able to sleep better than him, so I was lying awake and heard his gentle rapping. “Come in,” I said, moved by his red eyes and tear-stained face. “Couldn’t sleep,” he muttered, moving over to the kitchen table and taking a seat. “I understand, Daniel” I poured the two of us some tea and sat down at the other end of the table. Daniel just...

Tell us What You Know – Or We’ll Kill You The 9/11 victims and family members who are testifying in the sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui have produced some amazing, moving scenes that have brought tears to the eyes of almost everyone who has paid attention. The widows, the mothers, the sons, and the survivors will have to relive that day for the rest of their lives, and maybe the rest of us should think about it more often. But this sentimental parade is misguided in this case. Zacarias Mous...

When a man says "I think," it means he doesn't know; but when he says "I know," it means he doesn't think.