09.06.09
Quote of the Day
“No man is an island, and rules made for imaginary islands ignore the fragile ecology of the actual archipelago.”
Adam Gopnik, The Return of the Native, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
“No man is an island, and rules made for imaginary islands ignore the fragile ecology of the actual archipelago.”
Adam Gopnik, The Return of the Native, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009
I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL
this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
Richard Dawkins, God vs. Science - TIME