and too late schmart. If you browse Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, this one won’t be up there with Churchill or the rest of the loquacious crowd. But its rightness is hard to deny. Our redundancy is obvious. We tend to make the same mistakes over and over. Throw in a bit of greed and welcome the Nigerian spammers.
We’ve got the current silliness in the UIGEA/WTD/EU/Antiqua battles and a housing bubble. Not too different from the Internet bubble or the Human Genome Project. Like the Nigerian’s email, we always seem ready to fall for a line. It is no surprise we chase inside straights and flush draws.
We are Ace-rag players in life. When our loose-aggressive style hits, we prosper at the expense of the more ‘rational’ or whatever. It is the American way. The turn of last century robber barons are alive and well in our new century. And the trickle down lets the rest of us prosper.
It is interesting that it is our government and religious groups are the ones opposing our gambling penchant. The government