Spitting Image

---"One of the secrets."

"She coulda been a biker-chick but she made herself into a soccer mom complete with Republican Party membership and pearls.
She hates her mother but would never say so...she made damn sure she was always there for her kids, for every little thing."

---"So why are her kids self-involved shits? If she's always been six xanax away from a breakdown, you would think one of them would have some heart; some questions or understanding about the human condition they're burning to share. Something other to talk about than vacations, clothes and restaurants."

"The kids take after the grandmother.
It's like a learning disorder, a problem with perception: where you and I would recognize a living breathing human being, they can only see the absence or presence of brand names.
...the wonder about Abu Ghraib is not how it happened but how limited it was."

---"They learn not to feel?"

"The crimes, the traumas of the past ...and not their own past mind you...are long gone, but the remedies fill their daily existence like....like..."

---"The cream filling in twinkies?"