Yep, 2 for the price of 1:
Third, I get disgusted hearing a crowd that dares call itself “conservative” howl in laughter when the Bill of Rights is mocked.
Thoreau, Orange Alert, September 3, 2008
Shouldn’t any system that rewards and results in such proudly precognitive slavering be sanely restricted in its scope and sweep? Shouldn’t we, indeed, try to figure out how to do without it?
Jim Henley, Derange We Can Believe In, September 3, 2008
If we sit on our heels and wait for some apocalyptic insurrection or some evolutionary stage, which, to be frank, doesn’t look as if it is coming, then we will find that any instinct for mutual aid and spontaneous order will have been crushed by the religious worship of our great and benevolent welfare state.
Richard Garner, “The benfits of non-class struggle anarchism to the movement as a whole,” Total Liberty, Volume One, Number 2, 1998
“Though I think she tends to skate around the edge of what America really died of.”
“Which is what?”
Yavuz shrugged, “Fear.”
Richard Morgan, Thirteen, pg 246
Should atheists be barred from public office?
When PZ linked to this a while ago he noted that a quarter of the votes so far say “yes”?
At this time, 14:33 PDT, 3% (103) of the votes say yes.
…to our government:
We now depend on a few corn and soybean strains for the majority of calories (both animal and vegetable) eaten by U.S. citizens. Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who’ve ever lived,dining just a few pathogens away from famine.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 2007, pg 54
A long series of government interventions in and regulation of many different aspects of the market system has led to this state.
Those who find “the answer” in more government intervention and regulation should consider exactly what that approach has achieved to date and whether what we now have writ larger is really their goal.
If it is then we must ask whether this goal is really the health, life and liberty of this country’s and the world’s people.