Notes From a Die-Hard Marxist

(Not that Marx)

I have a theory about why babies cry when they are born, and this is it:

Because they should.

Because look around.

“It’s because the baby’s cold,” says the doctor, but the doctor’s wrong. The baby is warm, it’s the world that is cold.

“You’re just being a pessimist,” says the optimist, but that’s a bit simplistic (and optimistic).

We’re not pessimists, me a…