A life in words

  • Jabs

    I’ve never posted a video before as far as I can remember, but this was a real gem: Update: Nevermind, I posted that “Dark Bailout” video just a while ago. Watch this, though! Obama’s was pretty good, too, but McCain’s delivery is impeccable.

  • Psalm 37:21

    The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Interesting….

  • Gotta Write

    So I just have this urge to write something for the world—more to the point, something for my friends and family—to see. I live so much of my life in this fake little world called School and Grad School Apps and Stress. Yet sometimes I yearn to escape from that prison and live! Finally I…

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech … Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or control the right of another: and this is the only check it ought to suffer, and the only bounds it ought to know. … A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their freedom of speech. … Freedom of speech is ever the symptom, as well as the effect of a good government. … Guilt only dreads liberty of speech, which drags it out of its lurking holes, and exposes its deformity and horror to daylight.Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood no. 8, 1722 (orthography and spelling modernized)