Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut. "
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married.
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.