Quote of the Day
“While people have a right to free speech, they do not have a right to a free arrest.”
-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who wants to charge arrested anti-war protestors with the cost of their own prosecution.
Sometimes I wonder if the world can just continue to get crazier and crazier with no letup. Aren’t we going to reach a point where things just have to veer back toward sanity? Isn’t that some sort of physics principle? Help me out here.
I suppose it really depends on where you stand and in what direction you are looking how crazy any particular thing looks at any particular time. A few years ago, that story would have looked completely false. Right now it looks teeter-totter insane. In a few years, we may yearn for the sanity it represents.
About the time entropy sets in.
I don’t know, Adam, I really don’t. It seems that shallow thinking has become far too profitable.
One of the reasons I live with so much fear is that however unexplainably bad things are now, I know that they will get worse and in ways I can’t even fathom. Is the gall and creativity of those who would destroy freedom in the name of preserving freedom limitless? I hope not.
I wouldn’t be so concerned about the Gall and Creativity (domestic version of Shock and Awe) of those would destroy freedom in the name of preserving freedom. What you have to watch out for is the GaC of those who would destroy freedom (and convince others to do so in the name of something convenient like preserving freedom) in the name of power and profit.
True. You can convince someone who believes in freedom that their methods are incorrect. You can not convince someone who does not believe in freedom that freedom is a good thing — until, of course, you take it away from them.