Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked...
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home that for them was the capital of the world.