Given that I’m always scribbling notes regarding topics for upcoming columns, I occasionally end up with a number of short bits that don’t add up to a single cell but are still worthwhile fodder. Case in point, today I have an example going back a couple weeks after I was confronted again on Facebook by a poster by some politician or person touting the slogan “One People, One Nation, one Destiny,” which I believe was coined in the time when Forbes Burnham was our President. The note to myself was to remember to say, as I’m saying now: ‘Excuse me, what nonsense?’ We are not one people, not one nation, and therefore not one destiny. Indeed, if by some restructuring from outer space we did become so transformed, my reaction would be, “What a loss!”
