Fat Roger on the prowl

Tony Soprano is alive

...and well and eating onion rings in North Jersey. It was the third party narrator, the audience, who got whacked...never heard it coming....

How to Boil a Frog

The [Communist] revolutionary believed it to be in the nature of things that dictatorship and terror are needed if the good of humanity is to be served, just as the Aztec priests believed themselves to be entirely justified in ripping the hearts out of thousands of victims, since had they not done so, the sun would have gone out, a far worse catastrophe for mankind. In either case, the means are acceptable, being inevitable -- that is, if the theory is correct....
-- Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century