Posted on 05/19/2008 8:02:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
Seeing the Pope driven around in a bullet-proof vehicle reminds me of how much times have changed over the years. I can remember when President Franklin D. Roosevelt rode through Harlem in an open car.
A reader's response to my column about the mandated change from incandescent light bulbs to CFL bulbs: "It would be far better to exchange the corrupt hacks in Congress for some winos from the Bowery. Such a transition should open a new bright era for America."
Even if you think our presidential choices this election year are between disgust and disaster, anyone who has ever been through a real disaster can tell you that this difference is not small. It is big enough to go vote on election day.
One of the ways in which people are similar is in the lengths to which they will go in order to show that they are different.
Over the years, slowly but surely, we have painted ourselves into a corner on a whole range of issues, where we can no longer say or do what makes the most sense to us, but only what is considered to be politically correct.
The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchword could stop people from thinking for 50 years. The big catchword this election year is "change" and it has already stopped many people's thinking in its tracks.
It would be hard to think of a more ridiculous way to make decisions than to transfer those decisions to third parties who pay no price for being wrong. Yet that is what at least half of the bright ideas of the political left amount to.
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I am SOOOO embarrassed... I threw the list together quickly.
“agreed, joe mccarthy was a true american.”
he supposedly died of pneumonia, during or soon after the senate hearings. one wonders if there could have been a mistake in identifying the cause of death.
I’m not much into conspiracy theories in general but that wouldn’t surprise me, he made many many powerful enemies.
“i’m not much into conspiracy theories in general, but that wouldn’t surprise me...”
the quote of a non-famous person follows, said in anger at the time of sen. mccarthy’s death; “those sons of bit%^es killed him.”
there were many at that time with the same sentiments.
it was pure speculation, not based on any information, but a conclusion based on knowledge of communist antics of the past.
BTTT!
Yeah, and I'll bet he's clean and well-spoken, too...
(Is it just my impatience, or is FR reeeeeeeeeeely slowwww lately?)
Sounds like Mencken. It's cool that this came from a reader and that Sowell could appreciate (I believe) not just the sentiment but the good writing.
I am so glad you were able to find relief that way. :-) I have a friend who was not so lucky... :-( ...and have a similar situation myself.
Now, we hear of Senaor Kennedy's condition. I wonder if the FDA is going to require he wait (in vain) like the rest of us--or if he will be allowed to get experimental treatment.
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