Another proud member of the irony-based community.
The new Siena Poll finds that New Yorkers (everyone in the state) oppose the mosque by a 63-27 margin; they defend the constitutional right to build it by a 64-28 margin.-- Dave Weigel, via Sullyblog.
"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)
Which is the essence of civic conduct, isn't it - to support what's legal exactly when you don't want it?
ReplyDeleteIf I were a zillionaire like Bill Gates, I would pay to have a statute of Voltaire erected on every college campus in America, with "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it" engraved on the base. (Never mind that he didn't say that in so many words.)
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