Mickey Z

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Monday, February 13, 2006

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions

Daniel Webster sez: “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.”

(Thanks, RMJ)

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I found this at: http://www.bradblog.com:

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61 years ago today in Dresden:

On February 13-14, 1945, Allied bombers laid siege to the German city of Dresden. To read something I wrote about that “good war” atrocity, please click here. For more about the actual bombing, please click more at the end of this post.

The bombing of Dresden, of course, was the dramatic climax in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Speaking of novels, Noam Chomsky sez: “It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology.” That goes double for novels published by Mainstay Press. Founded in 2005 by three radical authors—Tony Christini, Mike Palecek and Andre Vltchek—Mainstay is off and running with six books already released and several more forthcoming. Recently, I asked Tony Christini a few questions via e-mail.
To read the full interview, please click here.

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