Perpetual Peonage?
“I crave felicity…. I’m in a state of peonage that seems perpetual.”
Whoa. Is this really how outlaw cowboys talk? Who doesn’t crave felicity? I’ve just never put it quite like that.
Perpetual Peonage?
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Sounds like he reads too many heroic western cowboy novels.
In any case Texas should set him free. He's done enough time for his crimes.
…..and now for something completely different.
Cook County Board President calls for end to drug war.
chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-preckwinkle-says-war-on-drugs-a-failure-20110617,0,1086145.story
Cook County being larger than about 30 of our US States/.