I must quibble with Hornberger’s autonomic judgment of targets as “terrorists”, but otherwise, gratifying sanity from principled right-libertarians:
And by that I don’t mean the passage of health care legislation (I refuse to call any change “reform” since it is an abuse of the word, whatever the “reform” is, left or right). For that I mean to wax about dovetails, since this blog is purportedly about writing, reading, thoughts in between. And he [...]
It’s nigh amazing how much time one can spend to get things right. One of my favorite ironies is this: computers were originally envisioned as labor-saving devices, but the more we have incorporated computers into our lives, personal and professional, the more it seems that we are scrambling to catch up to them. Which is [...]
There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it [...]