". . . laying a giant fiber-laden, aerobic turd of greed on the history of the republic."

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"It is also clear, in a historical perspective, that our current, most active generation--those between twenty and forty--is laying a giant fiber-laden, aerobic turd of greed on the history of the republic."- - Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked, Adventures of a Roving Gourmand. 

Harrison wrote that in a piece in 1989 and it has turned out to be prophetic.

"Mark Twain had the notion that there is no distinctly criminal class in America outside the U.S. Congress," Jim Harrison, The Raw and The Cooked

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"Mark Twain had the notion that there is no distinctly criminal class in America outside the U.S. Congress. We may add the executive branch. There is currently a dimension of cynicism in Washington that sends even Hollywood scampering to the puke trough." - - (written in 1992), Jim Harrison, The Raw and The Cooked