Reply #1: "The people know who their enemies are."-- Ed was always a curmudgeon...

[mike_c]

...but always an honest one. He used to chuck his beer cans out the car window, too, in an age when highway littering was bad form on a par with smoking cigars in a nursery. The highway, he said, was the obscene act, not the beer cans, which only trashed the bigger eyesore.

To paraphrase Tom Russell: "Gawd! I wish Edward Abbey was here!"