They know that in our case the abusive giant is a government that tries to control the smallest aspects of our national life, while his opponent is a people who, bitbybit, is becoming more conscious of its real stature.
His testimony about how this happened in his own life is plangent and familiar, but he addles it a bitby insisting that the real damage is being done at the neurological level, that our children are having their brains altered by too much instant messaging and the like.
Yet in this case, it's not a liter of liquor but a container of urine from Blake's long drive -- a sign of his degradation, emptied in a slosh of yellow liquid in the parking lot of the next crummy stop on his two-bit road tour: It's the by-product of a man pissing his life away.