Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.