Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Want Your Liberty Back?

Claire Wolfe links to a short piece written by Hugh Emerson, titled I Gave Up a Little Liberty.

Got Liberty?

Posted by John Venlet on 08/31 at 06:14 PM
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It Isn’t Antiseptic - A Quote on War

“Please try and understand this.  It’s not an easy thing to hear, but please listen.  There is no morality in warfare.  You kill children.  You kill women.  You kill old men.  You don’t seek them out, but they die.  That’s what happens in war.”

Paul Tibbets, quoted in Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War

Taken from:

Flyboys, James Bradley, Chapter 16, Fire War, pg. 248

Posted by John Venlet on 08/31 at 06:06 PM
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Automation Effects

Jeffrey Tucker, over at the Mises Economics Blog, adroitly points out the pro-Luddite foolishness of a Christian Science Monitor article titled “Coming soon: Robo-greeter.”  The article, written by Gregory M. Lamb, a staff writer, casts it words of automation fear willy nilly, like broadcasting seed on a field by hand in the old days.  The article may have been more balanced, if it had been written by a journalism automation system, which Lamb fears also.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/31 at 05:43 PM
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For the Oenophiles

In The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has a few words, well more than a few actually, on wine, with an eye cast on a recently published book titled Noble Rot.  The book was penned by William Echikson, and it delves into the recent history of the Bordeaux region and its wines.  Gopnik’s piece is titled “THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY,” and carries a subtitle of “What do we talk about when we talk about wine?”  The piece is not for quaffing.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/31 at 05:22 PM
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