According to Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long, a human being should be able to do certain things. Just out of curiousity, I'd like to find out which of these things my readers can do. Can you...
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I know where I’m NOT taking classes…
UPDATE: Apparently they’ve been shamed into taking down the video. So here is the copy I saved for just this case. It’s in .FLV (Flash Video) format.
Todays quote brought to you by one of my favorite movies, Serenity. This is from the part of the film where the teacher is talking to the class about the war.
Teacher: “With all the social and medical advancements we can bring to the Independents, why would they fight so hard against us?”
River Tam: “We meddle. People don’t like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don’t run, don’t walk. We’re in their homes and in their heads and we haven’t the right. We’re meddlesome.”
“The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.
The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.
It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.
Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.
He said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”
The knife is expected to sell for around £40-50 and has been tested with “very favourable” results by the Home Office’s Design and Technology Alliance – set up to research products that can deter crime.”
“WE are not trying to make YOU do anything. WE do not want your property, as you covet ours. WE don’t want to tax you or put your children into indentured servitude. WE are not trying to tell you how to think or what to believe. Heck, as much as I despise the racists in this country I understand that they still have the right to speak their pus-filled beliefs whether I like them or not. The same goes for your opinions, or Bonnie Erbe’s. This evidently makes me more enlightened than Bonnie Erbe or you. Oh, well, I have long known that if you scratch a liberal, you’ll get a fascist.
But, no, we don’t want you to be anything you don’t want to be. I wish I could say the reverse was true. If it were, we’d be one country instead of two.
But here’s our creed, and if you insist, our battle cry:
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