>I think it is a wise decision not to go. While I fully expect him to win in a landslide (really I do), if by some strange twist of fate he doesn't, it may be a disaster. ...
But on the plus side, if he does not win there will be a lot of people with new flat screen TVs ...
(reading that over it sounds nastier than I meant it - but I do dislike mob mentality of any kind and am not a big fan of huge rallies - whether they are in Chicago or Nuremburg )
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.
