"All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." ~H.L. Mencken
17 posted on 02/14/2009 12:57:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
("To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." Barry Goldwater)