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Quote of the Day - March 18, 2012
For an order to be properly carried out, it is necessary for a man to issue an order that is capable of being carried out. But to know what is and isn't capable of being carried out is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's campaign against Russia, involving millions, but even in the case of the simplest occurrence, since millions of obstacles can always get in the way of either of these. Every order carried out is always one of many that are not. All the impossible orders fail to engage with the course of events and don't get carried out. It is only the possible ones that do engage with the run of subsequent orders, do correspond with the course of events and do get carried out.
Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace Epilogue, Part II, Chapter 6
Friday, March 9, 2012
Nothing becomes funny by being labeled so.
"The Elements of Style: Fourth Edition"
by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, page 50
by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, page 50
Monday, February 27, 2012
LTTE: Public officials see ‘threats’ everywhere
Warren County Sheriff David Gallant essentially says he “can’t tell” what a threat is anymore because of the rise of social media websites (“Threats to judges taken seriously in age of Facebook and Twitter, authorities say,” Feb. 24).
Oh, how easy it is for public officials to blame their own ignorance on some indescribable patina of mystification descending on us all by a strange new mysterious phenomena.
Blah, blah, blah. Bollocks, I say.
There’s no confusion about what a threat is. Look it up. This is a serious issue that needs to be clarified, quick.
Last week a man in Cincinnati was ordered by a judge to post a groveling apology to his wife on Facebook because of a previous post that said “all you need to do is say that you’re scared of your husband or domestic partner and they’ll take (your child) away.”
That’s political speech. A judge ordered a man around for it. Not an isolated incident.
Concerned citizens need to vent, but the Violence Against Women Act ensures an accused man will be punished even if the accusation turns out to be false.
In most cases, judges are immune from prosecution, even if their erroneous decisions profoundly harm families.
And if it’s in family court? The watchdog eye of the media is forbidden to ever know what happened.
This is pure insanity. If we are made to be afraid to vent by easily offended ignorant public officials, it’s time to have them removed from office.
ERIK ANDERSON
Independence Township
Published: Monday, February 27, 2012, 4:21 AM
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