Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach.

Napoleon Bonaparte

America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

Adlai Stevenson

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

William McKnight

And Happy Birthday to me… I can’t wait for my fireworks.

During the Bush Administration, they kept supporting this fallacy called, “Abstinence Sex Education.”  Now through the efforts of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic we see how it actually was supposed to work.

There are two competing ideas on the process that governs the formation and maintenance of beliefs: 1) people maintain a belief because they have limited access to opposing beliefs, or 2) because they actively filter information in a way that avoids conflicting views. A new meta-analysis of past studies confirms the existence of active avoidance; when people are offered an opposing viewpoint, they will ignore it in favor of a supportive viewpoint in two out of three instances.

from Ars Technica

Nothing like a good avoidance mechanism when you don’t want the overhead of a paradigm shift…

Revolutions happen when people don’t have a choice.

Ross Mayfield, Chairman, Socialtext

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