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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women.
Louis Brandeis in Whitney vs. California
Thank Mr. Mendel for pondering peas
Most misread rap, and most rap fans will detest this video. Which is dangerous; rhythm and rhyme hammer home more than plainly put phrases. They can do more — just ask Mr. Poe.
The Republicans, now
They believed many things once — they were idealists. But those ideals lie dead; some betrayed by heros like Nixon, some unmasked by enemies like Clinton, others strangled for no reason at all. Now that they believe in nothing, not even themselves, they can and will say anything. McCain has offered up his dignity to the orthodox, excised with cynicism.
The orthodox believe only in guns and end times — a death cult. A party of useful idiots, many praying for armageddon, led by self-slashing ex-idealists.
