Slugs for Snails

That bad, eh?

And when Todd asks his teacher why he should spend his life trying to make the world better when it probably won't make a difference, Malley's response is a wan, "At least you can say you did something." Now there's a rallying cry! Have we really sunk so far into post-Reagan anomie and liberal self-loathing that even a college professor played by Robert Redford isn't allowed a moment of good old-fashioned hope?