"Hell is ... free will for other people!"
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Another proud member of the irony-based community.
"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
A fond Trek quote:
ReplyDelete"One of the problems with giving people free choice, Commander, is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."
- Odo
Or something to that effect :)
The more I watch the Democrats flounder, the less free will I think they should have.
ReplyDeleteYou said it, brother. It's like watching the Lions play the Patriots or, for that matter, anyone else.
ReplyDeleteIt's like they think reconciliation is the One Ring or something, and they'll be corrupted forever if they seize it. Naturally I cheer for the party that is *afraid* to exercise power. Figures.
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