Comments on: What if the Founding Fathers had used Twitter to Pen the Bill of Rights?

By: Cosmic Navel Lint

Cosmic Navel Lint — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:56:52 +0000

Jon Russell, above, wrote: “Politicians will complicate the obvious while trivializing the momentous…”

And that’s when they’re not making an art-form of obfuscation, and deliberately dissembling with the aim of confusing, as with the hopelessly ambiguous (and alleged) “separation of Church and State” clause.

By: Th.

Th. — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:08:57 +0000

I was going to tchtch you for stealing my idea, but then I noticed that you did this six months ago so, ah, you win.

By: MR

MR — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:30:01 +0000

The very soul of wit. Thank you for cleansing my palate!

Unfortunately, obfuscation is the statist’s preferred mode to keep us little people cowed.

A note of hope from latest Rasmussen poll: Replace entire Congress? 57% wd toss ‘em all … just 25% wd keep ‘em.

By: David Budd

David Budd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Scott:

interesting synopsis. I understand that Brevity, as the cliche goes, is the soul of wit, and that your point is made tongue somewhat in cheek. But I also am concerned that enforcing to terse a discussion removes clarity and ultimately ideas. I am afraid that the soi-disant “new media” are accelerating the pace of post-literacy.

I’m a mathematician by training, and appreciate a brief piece done by Edward Tufte (a statistics professor at Yale) called “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.” That piece of software is lampooned as a post-Stalinist nightmare (the cover art includes a shot of a military parade in Budapest, circa 1956, with captions added such as “There is no bullet list like Stalin’s bullet list,” “(PowerPoint) is an integrated application solution perfect for show trials,” and perhaps funniest of all, “For re-education campaigns, nothing is better than Auto-Content Wizard.”

Cheers,
David

By: Sissy Willis

Sissy Willis — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:59:26 +0000

The very soul of wit. Thank you for cleansing my palate!

Unfortunately, obfuscation is the statist’s preferred mode to keep us little people cowed.

A note of hope from latest Rasmussen poll: Replace entire Congress? 57% wd toss ‘em all … just 25% wd keep ‘em.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:08:08 +0000

Those who write the laws that govern are truly a joke. Politicians will complicate the obvious while trivializing the momentous. I would gladly vote for the man who told me he would not vote for the passage of any new law and would support repeal of many existing ones. Those in power feel they must pass more new laws each time they meet and the public and the press seem to feel the same. With each new law, with each new act a brick of freedom is removed from liberty’s base. More laws only create less freedom and the purpose of the elected official is to ensure liberty and freedom not to steal it for some special interest.