If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!