http://www.esquire.com/features/man-at-his-best/punching1207\
....I like karma as much as the next guy, but lately, watching my city
behave more and more like an Internet comments thread in the midst of a
flame war, I've grown tired of waiting for the planets to balance the
ledger. It's like we've started playing hockey without the enforcers, and
all the scrubs are tripping up the skaters with impunity. You know why
Wayne Gretzky could be Wayne Gretzky? Because everybody knew that Dave
"Cementhead" Semenko would fill you in if you fucked with his friend.
Too bad life changes when we take off our skates -- constrained by fear of
cops, by fear of lawyers, by fear of the wife, all of our judges. Not
anymore. I would submit, Your Honor, that if someone is doing something
demonstrably asinine, and I ask them to stop it, please, and they say,
"Make us," they've entered a binding oral contract whereby I am permitted,
even obligated, to try to make them.
--
Fred Stone
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell
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