“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.” HeartMayGovernmentSpiritNotionExperimentsIndividualismRuggedAmerican SpiritRugged IndividualismHuffing Author:Charlie Pierce
“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.” ShouldCollegeMassInstitutionsFundamentalsNotionUniversityVariousEntertainmentDeceitProvidingAbsurdityAthleticsSpectaclesUnreality Author:Charlie Pierce
