Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Monday, April 13, 2009

Oh, I Will SO Be Buying This Book

Oh, I Will SO Be Buying This Book
"And that one?" I pointed to a man up to his chin in boiling blood. He was screaming in agony so his face was distorted, but he looked Oriental.

"New one," Billy said. "Seung, something like that. Went out and shot a bunch of people in the college he was at. Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?"

I scratched my head. Billy's viewpoint seemed skewed, alien.

"Five of them were teachers," Billy said. "They had to protect their kids. How could they not be armed? It's as if someone has been taking away their guns." He saw my puzzlement. "Oh, well. I don't know how long he'll be out that deep, but he needs watchin'. Keeps trying to get ashore." - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Escape from Hell
Excerpt stolen shamelessly from From the Barrel of a Gun.

My boss and I talked for a good half-hour before work this morning about books. He'd brought me S.M. Stirling's In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, since he'd just finished it and knew I'd recently read The Sky People. As it turns out, our tastes in fiction are almost identical, though he tends to enjoy the horror genre more than I do. Escape from Hell was one book we both mentioned we planned on reading. On his recommendation I'm going to be picking up some C.S. Friedman soon, too.

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