2007 February 02 | Random Fate

by Jack Grant

I guess this shows how out of touch I’ve been getting with blogworld. The four year anniversary of Random Fate and my blogging passed two days ago without my noticing.

My big reminder is the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which I wrote about in my second or third blog entry in the original Blogger site that has been lost in the memory hole.

I miss those early days of blogging.

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2 February 2007 - 02:21 UTC

Does radicalism require deliberate rejection of learning?

by Jack Grant

He’s a total radical, probably the most radical president we’ve ever had in terms of his definition of the power of the presidency. There’s nothing more dangerous than a radical who doesn’t have information, doesn’t learn from information and doesn’t learn from the past.
-Seymour Hersh, in a symposium at Tufts University

This statement brings a question to my mind: Is it possible to remain a radical if one does learn from information and does learn from the past?

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.    -Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
   -Epictetus

I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
   -Stephen Millich

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
   -James Madison
    4th US president (1751 - 1836)

...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
   -Scott Adams
   cartoonist and satirist

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
   -H. H. Williams

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
   -Peter da Silva

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Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, ‘equality’ is a disaster.

—Lazarus Long

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