>>But, then again, I've seen airline pilots sitting in the screening area with their shoes off and being wanded? Gee, do you think he might be able to do some damage if he wanted to?
Oh John, John, John you just don't get it ... we are engaged in *two* vitally important conflicts - one, to protect us from terrorism (of a non-culturally or religiously specific nature, of course ) and the other - perhaps more important - to keep anyone from having their feelings hurt.
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.