A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.