Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Forced charity: receivers, givers.

"The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude. " 
-Justice Scalia

Friday, April 10, 2015

English doesn't beg, it plunders

 It's also been a paraphrasing of James Davis Nicoll's quote..."The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary."