Once upon a TIME, America was a self-reliant John WAYNE society where a MAN's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Now, America has become an over-lawyered society where NOBODY takes responsibility for mistakes because it is more profitable to claim victimhood and reach for a LAWYER.

Let me say it up front: I don't like BAD hair or capes. I'm not into witches, warlocks or elves. I would never try to CLAIM prog rock is COOL. But I LOVE it. And I KNOW I'm not the only one.

When you CONSTANTLY claim you are the best, PEOPLE start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can CONVINCE a lot of people by TALKING, even if that has nothing to do with your ACTUAL performances. But that's not my thing.

There's a SINGLE with D.J. Class and Fatman Scoop - I'm not GOING to claim to be a SINGER, but my voice is in it and the SONG is TECHNICALLY about me.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius OFFEND PEOPLE? The reason is that these OTHERS didn't claim to be GOD, but Jesus did.

Ronaldo is a GREAT PLAYER. But those who claim that he is STRONGER than MESSI do not understand football or are in BAD faith.

Citizens of Rome MIGHT boast that the CLAIM of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and SLAVES, and it was true up to a POINT, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and TORTURE as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.