Wednesday, September 19, 2007

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
-- James Madison

Monday, September 17, 2007

Art

If someone imitates another's idea, it's a rip off. But if enough people do it, it becomes a genre.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell