My favorite founding father

In 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

Seems about right

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8197617/German-man-castrates-teenage-daughters-57-year-old-boyfriend.html

 

"I received a phone call anonymously that my daughter was involved with a guy 40 years older than her. You said you couldn't stop him – so I did.

"I saw it as my duty as a father."

 

Off of Facebook

Yesterday I deactivated my Facebook account. I had tried to use Facebook to publish my thoughts and comments on modern society. Being as ubiquitous as it is, I like Facebook's ability to connect and share. But the format was limited. anything more than a paragraph or two gets overlooked, and most people on Facebook don't want political, economic, or legal commentary. They want Farmville, pictures of friends and famliy, and more light fare.

One of my concerns with Facebook is the tremendous amount of personal data that they collect and store. I may go back and reactivate my account sometime. It may even be soon. But I need to get back to creating more thourough and developed analysis and commentary.

Blogger is it for now, but I have privacy issues with Google too, so who knows.

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