“We have to get away from the ethos that knowledge is good, knowledge should be publicly available, that information will liberate us,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan.
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Leave me alone
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. –William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
PATRIOT Act Passage
“They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote.” –Rep. Ron Paul, TX, on how few Congresscritters saw the USA-PATRIOT Bill before voting overwhelmingly [...]
Can you do all this?
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]
Essential Liberty
“They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
Time of War
Inter arma silent leges. It means, “In time of war the laws are silent,”
Electronic Frontier
If the Internet is an electronic frontier, spammers are cattle rustlers on the electronic frontier.
Herbert Hoover on Budgeting
“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” – Herbert Hoover
Vote Democratic in Two Weeks
I rarely get political here, but the Republicans in my home county make me sick. I have a clear notice on the front of my home that I don’t want junk stuck to my door. So what do the Republicans do? They stick two sets of brochures under my doormat. If they can’t follow my [...]
OK, whatever you say.
It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you mean it is. If you don’t, it’s its. Then too, it’s hers. It isn’t her’s. It isn’t our’s either. It’s ours, and likewise yours and theirs. — Oxford University Press, Edpress News
