http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071913818696964.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?"
I've often thought the "Progressive Left" and the the "Religious Right" have a great deal in common ( cf Eric Hoffer - "The True Believer")
My objection to both has not been the claim to have a better idea but rather the self-righteous claim to being better people.
The tragedy in Arizona is a definite sign that there are some very crazy people out there. I, for one, had no doubt about that a week ago.
Politics can be skin deep, but crazy is to the bone.
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.
