IMAGINE/A DREAMER

Some blogger posted this comment in a thread devoted to, of all things, the "immigration issue":

"One night I had a dream of hell. I dreamed that everyone had long forks for hands. There were tables of food, but the forks were too long to reach people's mouths. They could stab the food, but not manuever it to their mouths.The next night, I had a dream of heaven. Everyone still had forks for hands, and the forks were still too long to feed themselves. Instead, everyone was feeding the person across from them at the table."

Or, as Bill Clinton once said, "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be fixed by what is right with America." A hopelessly idealistic statement? Maybe so. But if you abandon the standards that one uses to determine right and wrong, you've already conceded the battle without firing a shot.

"In a more fair world, you would have been the one chosen," the Tom Skerritt character glibly says to Jodie Foster's scientist. She pauses for a few seconds, and then thoughtfully replies, "Funny... I thought the world was what we make of it."