If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Never insult anyone by accident.