[Helms]

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"the survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us."- Karl Popper

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The survival of an idea or ideas on Free Republic is dependent upon rigorous, ferocious and frenetic examination and refutation

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piranha n: small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.

Teddy Roosevelt once wrote about the legendary toothed fishes of South America. "They will rend and devour alive any man or beast". "Piranhas," TR determined, "are the most ferocious fish in the world."

Free Republic, Natural Selection and where the 'Fittest Ideas' Survive

[Mia T]

Old media shouldn't take comfort in Garner's label. "Rather-CBS" is meant to represent the entire torpid, irrelevant, incredible lot of them.

Even now they are too dense to realize that the vigorous pursuit of Rathergate is their only self-serving option.

Their assistance in the Kerry coverup will make the end, if not completely painless, swift.