Pic of the day:  The Representative from Florida’s 22nd district, Allen West. _____________________________ Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are “vowed” to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In [...]

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised [...]

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being “pushed to an extreme”, not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty ___________________________________ Viddy of the day: Westboro Wins [...]

Observations on Freedom and Capitalism: Freedom is free sometimes, don’t let’em bullshit you. People just want you to pay like they did, because they were dumb enough to buy what is, and should always be, free. What you do have to pay for is living with other people. Because people have no idea what others think of as freedom, they try to [...]

I had a thought.  It was a small thought.   I let it grow, gave it room to breathe.  I let it go where it needed to go, do what it needed to do.  I hoped that it would lead me somewhere special, show me something I had never seen, or give me a new view [...]