Quote of the Day (Fruits of My Research)

I consider Mort Sahl to be not just a great comedian, but also a highly intelligent commentatator on the American scene (which is a big part of the reason I'm down at UCLA watching old videotape of some of his television appearances). Here's a comment he made in response to a actor Chuck Connors, who asked what Sahl stood for (sorry, I can't bring up a picture on the public-access computer here at the library):

"I think it's incumbent upon everybody who is an artist,

by definition, to give the people the best they have--

for his own sake-- and as a by-product, it will be good

for the community he lives in.... Retain your memory

and protect it; don't accept the double-think in this

country. Remember who you are and what this country

was and watch the drift, see the disparity. Fight the

madness wherever it is."

Hard to believe Sahl was looking at things that way almost 45 years ago! I wish more people had followed this advice back then.