A life in words

  • It Cuts Deep

    Mwa ha ha, you fools! You thought it mattered who gets elected this fall! Oh that’s funny! Okay, so it does matter. A lot. But some things are likely to stay the same. From foreignpolicy.com’s “Passport” blog.

  • Driven by Cruelty

    Strange how a nation whose people pride themselves so much in fair treatment of each individual can be so driven by cruelty against those they refuse to understand. Here’s an honest assessment by the Wall Street Journal: Mormons Dismayed by Harsh Spotlight.

  • Immigration’s Economic Key

    Problems With the Romney Plan Mitt Romney’s plan to end illegal immigration worries me. In particular, this point bodes ill for the economy: Encourage Legal Immigration. Streamline the system to recruit and retain skilled workers and welcome the best and the brightest from around the world to our universities. To begin with, we already get…

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations…. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form….John Stuart Mill, On LIberty