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14 December 2005 - 23:08 UTC

Commentary, Recommended Reading

Dangerous assumptions

by Jack Grant

Michael Reynolds at The Mighty Middle presents a thesis that for the most part I agree with, one that follows Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malevolent motives what can be ascribed to simple incompetence.

Sadly, that incompetence is of those running the government of the United States; an area where incompetence is a luxury we can no longer indulge.

It is truly a dangerous assumption that there is some grand, malevolent plan to “wage war for oil” when it does not exist.

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14 December 2005 - 14:14 UTC

Quotes

A few quotes that may sound cynical to some…

by Jack Grant

…and appear to be accurate observations in the eyes of others:

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
   -H. L. Mencken

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
   -Robert Frost

There is not a more mean, stuipd, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, ungrateful animal than the public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
   -William Hazlitt

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