That the loudest cries for freedom, liberty and the right of every man to the pursuit of happiness came from men who held others as slaves… and that these slaveholders cursed the mother country for reducing them to the wretched condition of ‘slaves’ by forcing unfair taxes upon them… and that these men, all the time owning other men, created a republican democracy based on ideals almost unimaginable in their day…. that while they ensured by the construction of their republican democracy that the rabble would not get the final say– by ingenious devices like the Electoral College– 

“Do you have a kind of Tourrets, sir?”

Excuse me.  Who is asking that?

“Does it matter?  Wasn’t it you who not ten minutes ago wrote that the best thing to do when the mind was exhausted was shutting down the computer and clearing the mess on the desk all around the screen?”  

Isn’t that a rhetorical question?

“Are you answering a question with a question, rascal?”

Aren’t you?  

“I know you are, but what am I?   Why are you asking me?  Clear your desk.”