>>>Change may be good, but its results aren't always. Example: the current banking crisis. Not sure how that fits into the model of conservatism as compulsory bogeyman. ;-)
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>>Somewhere I have a framed copy of an old cartoon from "Punch" where the character Colonel Blimp says "Egad, Sir. Reform's alright - as long as it doesn't *change* anything!" <bg>
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>I support (whatever) but
NIMBY>
Well, except for married gays. i'm trying to encourage them to move into my neighborhood to drive up property values <g> ( I lived in Noe Valley and the Castro in SF in the 70s )
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.
