Odd. Has there been an injunction barring all chatter content of any ... "controversial"??? nature.
This morning shortly after the news was coming out of the abomination in London, thread 1029868 began, in which condolences were expressed to our English friends.
The thread has since disappeared. Gone. Lost in the oubliette.
Of course, he who owns the sand box may kick over the castle.
I wonder if the atrocity had occured in Paris if the thread would have disappeared - or just been lost in the confusion of trying to figure out to whom one should surrender.
And yet it was Voltaire ... ( see below )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
