William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the ( Read more... )

"Hmmm, I wonder if this thoroughly traumatized boy, who just watched his mother and brothers be murdered by his adoptive grandfather, is going to grow up to be a sociopathic monster. Stay tuned, we'll all find out together."

--Why the History of Rome is my favorite podcast.

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Constitutional Cases about milk:

West Lynn Creamery v. Healy
Dean Milk v. City of Madison
Nebbia v. New York
Carolene Products
Block v. Community Nutrition Institute

I'll post more as they come up.

I have needed this coffee shop for the last 6 years.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

I just discovered that Big Mike is serving in Iraq. In high school pickup games, we used to just hand him the football and let him run over people for a good 30 yards before the 3 or 4 tacklers on his back started to slow him down. May your football prowess serve you well, good sir.

She wouldn't even answer me, then. She made out like she was concentrating on her next move in the game and all. Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares--boy, I can still see it. She just rubbed it into the board with her finger. I don't know why, but it bothered the hell out of me.

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2004 ( Read more... )