Quote of the Day

Is it a cop-out of a post? Yes. But in addition, these are (a) easy, and (b) perfectly reflective of what I spend all my time doing now, which is reading. It's a word-intensive program, apparently.

So would you rather have a quote, a post about how much I read, or nothin'? If there are opinions out there, let me know. I'll probaby ignore them. Anyhoo, it's a whole passage this time. It's nice to be reading philosophy again.

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individual not in harmoy with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indespensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism."

From On Liberty (1859), by John Stuart Mill.

The Barry Williams Show

Personally, I think Greg has a problem.

The wife sent this link; it's weirdly amazing. Check out a Brady Bunch scene where Greg is... affected.

http://pcjm.blogspot.com/2006/10/johnny-brav-whoa.html

I shit you not...

Just sat down at a table in the library, by the big windows, no less. I have it all to myself, but there are a couple of books that were left here (which is very common).

One of those books is "Essays in Positive Economics," by Milton Friedman.

So remember, kids, sometimes stereotypes are just true.

Quote of the Day

I'm not saying I'll have another quote tomorrow, but this is great:

"A, to induce B to submit to intimate familiarities..."

People should so use that term for gettin' it on, as in, "Oh man, I totally induced her to submit to intimate familiarities. Yeah! Who's the man?"