“We want our government to be like fire fighters: spend their days practicing driving big shiny trucks and having barbecues. In return for the minor inconvenience on the road and the easy 9 to 5, we expect them to be there when we need them.

Not this government: we have a crowd in power that prefers to create fire hazards, then takes pains to let them burn for maximum effect, just to justify taking more of our money because fires are really big and scary.” - “anonymous,” in a comment at Doug Ross’

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“The ubermenschen of the Hollyweird-Ivy League-Lefty ruling class feel the voters, having abandoned them, are no longer worthy of their solicitude and should thus be Alinskyized in the same way as Conservatives, Libertarians, non-RINO Republicans, and Tea Partiers.” - “edutcher,” commenting at Althouse

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“...If we banned things on the basis of ugliness and relative uselessness, there's a whole lot of people who’d never be allowed out of the house.” - Roberta X

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“When the right-thinking folks get it wrong, it’s never their fault.” - Glenn Reynolds

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“‘Ethics’ in modern practice has simply become a method of evading actual ethical behavior by creating a checklist of Don’ts which are almost entirely unrelated to the actual ethical transaction; compliance with this silly list of Don’ts allows actors to violate the real ethics of the profession like there's no tomorrow.” - Ace

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