(Embarcadero Station, August 15, 2011)

Lessons from the UK and a political conservative: "Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face." -- David Cameron, British Prime Minister, commenting on the recent looting and rioting in London and the rest of his country.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana, from The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 (1905)

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist/socialist