We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.