Thomas Jefferson is commonly credited with the memorable line, “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” Well, we need it now more than ever if we want to get off of the slip-n-slide to becoming a third world police state. Read it and weep.
Random stuff that enrages me mixed with some humor to take the edge off -- you know, for the kids.
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- Favorite Stones Tune?
- Here's an improvement on democracy
- How We Can Win the Oil Endgame
- The Earth Charter
- Can We Save the American Experiment?
- More attempts to revoke our hard won freedoms
- Capitalism = THE Problem with World?
- Taking time off for Christmas
- A Winnable War, Please.
- Eternal Vigilance
- Is SB 1959 For Real???
- Mitt Romney doesn't get it
- Keith Olbermann Nails Bush (deservedly so)
- United States of Weaklings
- Marcus Brigstocke is Hilarious
- 5 Stages of Global Warming Deniers
- Jon Stewart is Great (as usual)
- How YOU Can Save Democracy
- What Would it Take to Impeach?
- How the President Defines "Success"
- The Pres and His Hawks
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Books I'm reading or would like to
- Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
- Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- I Am America And So Can You - Stephen Colbert
- Entanglement - Amir Aczel
- A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness - Ramachandran
- God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
- How Everything Works: Making Physics out of the Ordinary - Louis A. Bloomfield
- HRD - Defend, Take Down, Submit - Taejoon Lee
- Kiss Me Like a Stranger - Gene Wilder
- Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
- Sock - Penn Jillette
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution - Richard Dawkins
- The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science - Natalie Angier
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes [Box Set] - Bill Watterson
- The Dangerous Book for Boys - Iggulden
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
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Random musings
Posts o' the moment:
The War Against the Third World - and Against Us
Truth was first US casualty in Iraq war.
Democracy is great but secularism is better.
Can we really win the oil endgame?
Capitalism is arguably THE world's biggest problem.Now I know why atheists are so angry.