If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
From David Mamet
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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