Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941), Anglo–Irish journalist. repr. in Corruptions of Empire, pt. 2 (1988). “Balancing Acts,” Nation (New York, Oct. 27, 1984).