Democracy Requires A Certain Relish For Confusion

Being Slightly Paranoid Is Like Being Slightly Pregnant - It Tends To Get Worse.

We've Got The Emphasis On The Wrong Syllable When It Comes To Crime In This Country. The Fbi Says Burglary And Robbery Cost U.s. Taxpayers $3.8 Billion Annually. Securities Fraud Alone Costs Four Times That. And Securities Fraud Is Nothing To The Cost Of Oil Spills, Price-fixing, And Dangerous Or Defective Products. Fraud By Health-care Corporations Alone Costs Us Between $100 Billion And $400 Billion A Year. No Three-strikes-and-you're-out For These Guys. Remember The S&l Scandal? $500 Billion.

The Libertarians, Of Whom I'm Rather Fond, Are Running Harry Browne. Libertarians Are, Just As They Claim, Principled And Consistent - They Believe In Individual Liberty. Commendable As They Are, And Despite Their Reliability As Allies In Civil Liberties Struggles, You May Notice That Libertarians Sometimes Prove That A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds, And That There Is A Difference Between Logic And Wisdom.

Listen To The People Who Are Talking About How To Fix What's Wrong, Not The Ones Who Just Work People Into A Snit Over The Problems. Listen To The People Who Have Ideas About How To Fix Things, Not The Ones Who Just Blame Others.

Calling George Bush Shallow Is Like Calling A Dwarf Short.