The Reality
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Mark Sanford, Republican Moral Scold, Cheats on Wife... John Edwards is Back in the News
The radical right wing Christian Republican governor of the beautiful but failed state of South Carolina, who voted to impeach Bill Clinton ten years ago, and who a few months ago became a GOP hero for refusing President Obama's stimulus money, opting instead to let SC continue it's death spiral... cheated on his wife.
This means only one thing: We're going to be hearing a lot more tawdry details about John Edwards' scandalous, terrible, hypocritical affair.
Your liberal media, folks.
When Edwards is all over the tee-vee in a few days, remember me, saying "I told you so."
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This means only one thing: We're going to be hearing a lot more tawdry details about John Edwards' scandalous, terrible, hypocritical affair.
Your liberal media, folks.
When Edwards is all over the tee-vee in a few days, remember me, saying "I told you so."
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Note to Self: Next Time, Elect A Liberal
Here's why we can't have nice things:
Obama isn't a liberal. And he isn't a fighter.
In November of 2008, the country voted for things that the Conservative Governing Majority* hate. (The CGM is loosely defined as all of the GOP, many Democrats, and most political media institutions.)
During a year of campaigning for President, the national political dialogue made it clear that if Obama won he would do many wonderful and/or dasdardly things. The shopping list was drilled into our heads:
And apparently we voted overwhelmingly for universal healthcare reform, we voted to end the war in Iraq, we voted to tax the rich, we voted to stop gaybashing bills like DADT, and on, etc.
Those things will never come... without a fight.
Why? Because there is too much profit being made by Corporations and the Senators they have purchased in our current system of Corporate Feudalism. To achieve the shopping list items meant fighting against the will of the Conservative Governing Majority.
Obama is not a liberal and he is not a fighter.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Here is the really tragic part: George Bush's destruction of the Republican Party brand, and his exposure of Conservative Ideology - fiscal, foreign, and domestic - as an absurd sham, truly opened the door for a New New Deal. One that could revitalize American society much in the same way that FDR had done after Hoover, 80 years ago, presaged Bush's performance.
Obama isn't a liberal. And he isn't a fighter.
In November of 2008, the country voted for things that the Conservative Governing Majority* hate. (The CGM is loosely defined as all of the GOP, many Democrats, and most political media institutions.)
During a year of campaigning for President, the national political dialogue made it clear that if Obama won he would do many wonderful and/or dasdardly things. The shopping list was drilled into our heads:
And apparently we voted overwhelmingly for universal healthcare reform, we voted to end the war in Iraq, we voted to tax the rich, we voted to stop gaybashing bills like DADT, and on, etc.
Those things will never come... without a fight.
Why? Because there is too much profit being made by Corporations and the Senators they have purchased in our current system of Corporate Feudalism. To achieve the shopping list items meant fighting against the will of the Conservative Governing Majority.
Obama is not a liberal and he is not a fighter.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Here is the really tragic part: George Bush's destruction of the Republican Party brand, and his exposure of Conservative Ideology - fiscal, foreign, and domestic - as an absurd sham, truly opened the door for a New New Deal. One that could revitalize American society much in the same way that FDR had done after Hoover, 80 years ago, presaged Bush's performance.
“When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” - JFKThis grand opportunity is being squandered by Obama. He is becoming Jimmy Carter every day. I sometimes think this is more depressing to watch than the eight interminable years of Bush. ¶ 6:12 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
They're Not To Be Taken Seriously
I'm seeing more and more FOX News comedians and Republican party employees object to President Obama's health care reform plan on the grounds that it presumably runs counter to how they want Conservative government to be run (which is free-market idealism, untethered - each acting in our own rational self interest): These people are not serious.
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Stop treating these people as anything other than clowns.
#1 They are arguing for radical libertarianism - the kind of fantasy invented philosophy found in the FICTION novels of Ayn Rand.
It is simply not real. This "philosophy", objectivism, is a work of fiction. Objectivism is the fictional creation of John Galt, himself a fictional character in the novel, Atlas Shrugged.
It's make believe, people!
Can you imagine if Dennis Kucinich proposed an amendment to a Defense budget bill saying that the bill as written was not in keeping with how society should optimally function (the best example, obviously being as explained in the Elvish masterpiece Quenta Silmarillion, translated by Bilbo Baggins in his Red Book of Westmarch.)
The mockery would be awesome.
The conservative counterpoint is no less ridiculous.
#2 As such, America rejected them at the polls in November 2008. They are losers.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Marriage Funnies
One hundred years ago, conservatives argued against my grandparents getting married on the grounds that they were from different religions. The conservatives quoted the ancient Bible and rested their case on a 3,459 year old essay: "Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons."
Thankfully, my grandparents' love won the fight.
Forty-two years ago, conservatives argued against some people in my parent's generation getting married on the grounds that the couple in love were from different races. The conservatives again quoted the ancient Bible in legal court opinions:
Today, conservatives argue against some people in my generation getting married on the grounds that the couple in love is from the same sex. The conservatives quote the same tired fire and brimstone from the ancient Bible: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? Bill O'Reilly said on the conservative channel, FOX.
I don't doubt that we will win our fight soon. But I'm just so goddamned tired of fighting the same fight over and over again against the same conservatives. Will this country never grow up?
UPDATE:
Dear Bill O'Reilly,
Your ancient book doesn't get to define my legal rights. Our laws do.
You love to say, "Will it end with a box turtle?" No, you're retarded*: iff the turtle pays $36, takes a blood test, is a legal resident of the state, has a legal birth certificate, a social security number, is over 18 years of age, found to be of sound mind, and signs his name with black ink on a civil marriage certificate before the county clerk's officer and a witness... well, yes, that is either a man dressed like a turtle, one of Bush's futuristic animal-human hybrids or, more to the point, you're retarded*.
Kisses,
Fred
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Thankfully, my grandparents' love won the fight.
Forty-two years ago, conservatives argued against some people in my parent's generation getting married on the grounds that the couple in love were from different races. The conservatives again quoted the ancient Bible in legal court opinions:
"Almighty God created the races, white, black, yellow, Malay, and red and placed them on separate continents, and but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend the races to mix." - Judge Bazile, Caroline County, VA, 1965.Thankfully, Mildred and Richard Loving won the fight. I didn't marry a white person and nobody gave us guff.
Today, conservatives argue against some people in my generation getting married on the grounds that the couple in love is from the same sex. The conservatives quote the same tired fire and brimstone from the ancient Bible: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? Bill O'Reilly said on the conservative channel, FOX.
I don't doubt that we will win our fight soon. But I'm just so goddamned tired of fighting the same fight over and over again against the same conservatives. Will this country never grow up?
UPDATE:
Dear Bill O'Reilly,
Your ancient book doesn't get to define my legal rights. Our laws do.
You love to say, "Will it end with a box turtle?" No, you're retarded*: iff the turtle pays $36, takes a blood test, is a legal resident of the state, has a legal birth certificate, a social security number, is over 18 years of age, found to be of sound mind, and signs his name with black ink on a civil marriage certificate before the county clerk's officer and a witness... well, yes, that is either a man dressed like a turtle, one of Bush's futuristic animal-human hybrids or, more to the point, you're retarded*.
Kisses,
Fred
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
The "Come To My Event" Problem
How can you get people to come to your thing?
Are you a politician who wants to have a full house at a fundraiser?
Are you launching a website and want it to 'take off'?
Some network theorists would tell you that you need to genuinely reach a maven and thus achieve that elusive tipping point.
Key:
Clients sometimes ask folks like me how to get a lot of people to love their [whatever] so that they can fork over $.
Well, strategists like me can quack about actor network theory and post-ANT, and clustering along shared affinities all we want, but let's be honest... as evidenced in the above clip, rule #1: Your shits gotta be good.
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Are you a politician who wants to have a full house at a fundraiser?
Are you launching a website and want it to 'take off'?
Some network theorists would tell you that you need to genuinely reach a maven and thus achieve that elusive tipping point.
Key:
Clients sometimes ask folks like me how to get a lot of people to love their [whatever] so that they can fork over $.
Well, strategists like me can quack about actor network theory and post-ANT, and clustering along shared affinities all we want, but let's be honest... as evidenced in the above clip, rule #1: Your shits gotta be good.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Michael James Kavanagh
Michael Kavanagh is the 2009 winner of the RFK international journalism award.
The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award honors those who report on issues that reflect Robert F. Kennedy's concerns including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.
Led by a committee of six independent journalists, the Awards are judged by more than fifty journalists each year. It has become the largest program of its kind and one of few in which the winners are determined solely by their peers.
In this interview discussing the award, Kavanagh mentions a few great orgs that are working in this area.
Heal Africa
VDAY
Incidentally, several areas of the activist and science blogospheres are working together on this issue as well: Silence is the Enemy is the coalition's rallying moniker.
Congratulations, Michael. You do great honor to the legacy of one of my heroes. ¶ 2:30 PM 1 comments
The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award honors those who report on issues that reflect Robert F. Kennedy's concerns including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.
Led by a committee of six independent journalists, the Awards are judged by more than fifty journalists each year. It has become the largest program of its kind and one of few in which the winners are determined solely by their peers.
In this interview discussing the award, Kavanagh mentions a few great orgs that are working in this area.
Heal Africa
VDAY
Incidentally, several areas of the activist and science blogospheres are working together on this issue as well: Silence is the Enemy is the coalition's rallying moniker.
Congratulations, Michael. You do great honor to the legacy of one of my heroes. ¶ 2:30 PM 1 comments
Monday, June 01, 2009
LA Times calls Colbert's Grand Slam a 'Gaffe'
The LA Times reports that Stephen Colbert is "thrilled" to hear a majority of conservatives don't know that he's making fun of them. A recent Ohio State University study confirmed what I long suspected. But that's only half the story. The second part of this story is an example of how stupid our media is.
Rebecca Ascher-Walsh writes in The LA Times:
That wasn't a gaffe! It was on purpose, lady. It was indescribably brave. That wasn't a gaffe, that was the greatest thing I've ever seen on Television in my entire life.
Colbert mocked George Bush and the assembled lapdog media to their faces. That neither butt of his joke laughed at themselves or each other doesn't make it a gaffe, it only makes it better.
When Colbert delivered his well-crafted monologue of vicious, bitter mockery, directly to the objects of his scorn, his fans cheered for him. There's three possibilities for this writer's use of the word 'gaffe.'
1. She doesn't know what a gaffe is.
NOTE: (A gaffe is when Sarah Palin mixes up DesMoines and Davenport Iowa, calling one the other. OTOH, it's not a gaffe when Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctorine refers to -- that's called stupidity.)
2. The writer's editors are still smarting from Colbert's mockery, and so as to delegitimize the truth of Colbert's attack, they dismiss his monologue as some sort of near-miss performance.
3. The writer just might be as confused about Colbert as the subjects of the Ohio State University study, because nobody who actually understands Colbert's act can possibly think this this is a gaffe:
Stephen Colbert at White House Correspondents Dinner
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Rebecca Ascher-Walsh writes in The LA Times:
Perhaps his most public gaffe was his 2006 performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, where a stunned audience listened to him reel off lines about then-President Bush such as, "Events can change; this man's beliefs never will."Gaffe? WTF?!
That wasn't a gaffe! It was on purpose, lady. It was indescribably brave. That wasn't a gaffe, that was the greatest thing I've ever seen on Television in my entire life.
Colbert mocked George Bush and the assembled lapdog media to their faces. That neither butt of his joke laughed at themselves or each other doesn't make it a gaffe, it only makes it better.
When Colbert delivered his well-crafted monologue of vicious, bitter mockery, directly to the objects of his scorn, his fans cheered for him. There's three possibilities for this writer's use of the word 'gaffe.'
1. She doesn't know what a gaffe is.
NOTE: (A gaffe is when Sarah Palin mixes up DesMoines and Davenport Iowa, calling one the other. OTOH, it's not a gaffe when Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctorine refers to -- that's called stupidity.)
2. The writer's editors are still smarting from Colbert's mockery, and so as to delegitimize the truth of Colbert's attack, they dismiss his monologue as some sort of near-miss performance.
3. The writer just might be as confused about Colbert as the subjects of the Ohio State University study, because nobody who actually understands Colbert's act can possibly think this this is a gaffe:
Stephen Colbert at White House Correspondents Dinner
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Monday, April 06, 2009
They're Using Your Profession Against You
NewsCorp is a force of destruction.
Any actually reputable media outlet that claims any journalistic integrity, but which doesn't call out FOX News, is partially responsible.
For what?
Dead cops, for one.
Let's look at the shooting in Pittsburgh, where a activist 22-yr old Republican, wearing a bullet-proof vest, armed with a .22 rife, a handgun and an AK-47, killed three cops because of his "hatred of our Zionist-controlled government," the impending martial law, and the suspension of the 2nd Amendment.
Whoa, what would make that kid think that any of those things are true? He loved John McCain, so what? McCain didn't tell him to kill cops...
Oh, that's right, there's a 24-hour news channel on free basic cable dedicated to paranoid conspiracy theories, armageddon, eliminationism, and inspiring the heavily-armed hatred of liberals at any cost and in militaristic tones.
Here's the thing: I don’t recall homicidal frenzy being a normal part of the recessions of 1981-82, 1991-92 or 2001. What's so different about now?
First, the body count:
Could the difference be that not only do we now have a Democrat in the White House during a painful recession, but now there exists a full-time conservative TV apparatus that uses eliminationist, paranoid, violent propaganda to fear-monger and whip-up angry and depressed people (the sole product of recessions) into believing that liberals are to blame for their pain?
FOX is also telling people, that not only is the President a "Radical Left-winger" but that he is a "reverse racist" minority who may not even be an American citizen... plus, he "pals around with terrorists" -- as Sarah Palin made clear during the campaign. All of that libelous hate mongering is the cherry on top for these crazies.
Liberals want to take your guns, they want to make your kids gay and they used their racial quotas to give your jobs to undeserving minorities. Produced in two-minute segments. All day, every day.
Hell, Fox made this same case, that Liberals were to blame for everything, even when Conservatives controlled every branch of government. Now FOX just makes the same case louder because they don't have to spend half their time apologizing for Bush's failures.
If only cops weren't getting killed as a result. Maybe FOX News hoped that only Democratic Senators would would be the targets.
Sarah Palin, what happens when you equate your political opponents with your battlefield enemies? People die.
If any reporters out there want to try to tell the story behind the blood bath that has been 2009, watch FOX.
UPDATE: 6-11-2009: After the assassination of an OB/GYN doctor at an abortion clinic in Kansas, and the attack on the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white-supremacist and "birther" this video from Media Matters says it all:
This place is too conservative to work.
Any actually reputable media outlet that claims any journalistic integrity, but which doesn't call out FOX News, is partially responsible.
For what?
Dead cops, for one.
Let's look at the shooting in Pittsburgh, where a activist 22-yr old Republican, wearing a bullet-proof vest, armed with a .22 rife, a handgun and an AK-47, killed three cops because of his "hatred of our Zionist-controlled government," the impending martial law, and the suspension of the 2nd Amendment.
Whoa, what would make that kid think that any of those things are true? He loved John McCain, so what? McCain didn't tell him to kill cops...
Oh, that's right, there's a 24-hour news channel on free basic cable dedicated to paranoid conspiracy theories, armageddon, eliminationism, and inspiring the heavily-armed hatred of liberals at any cost and in militaristic tones.
Here's the thing: I don’t recall homicidal frenzy being a normal part of the recessions of 1981-82, 1991-92 or 2001. What's so different about now?
First, the body count:
- Knoxville UU Church shooter actually wanted to kill "every single liberal and all Democrats in the Senate."
- 7 residents, 1 nurse, killed in NC nursing home shooting. [AP]
- Man kills wife, five kids, himself, after being fired. [CNN]
- 6 dead and 1 critical after Santa Clara massacre. [Register]
- Ohio family found dead in suspected murder-suicide. [CNN]
- Funeral, for four killed Oakland police. [MSNBC]
- Binghamton, NY, 14 killed in murder-suicide at immigration center.
Could the difference be that not only do we now have a Democrat in the White House during a painful recession, but now there exists a full-time conservative TV apparatus that uses eliminationist, paranoid, violent propaganda to fear-monger and whip-up angry and depressed people (the sole product of recessions) into believing that liberals are to blame for their pain?
FOX is also telling people, that not only is the President a "Radical Left-winger" but that he is a "reverse racist" minority who may not even be an American citizen... plus, he "pals around with terrorists" -- as Sarah Palin made clear during the campaign. All of that libelous hate mongering is the cherry on top for these crazies.
Liberals want to take your guns, they want to make your kids gay and they used their racial quotas to give your jobs to undeserving minorities. Produced in two-minute segments. All day, every day.
Hell, Fox made this same case, that Liberals were to blame for everything, even when Conservatives controlled every branch of government. Now FOX just makes the same case louder because they don't have to spend half their time apologizing for Bush's failures.
If only cops weren't getting killed as a result. Maybe FOX News hoped that only Democratic Senators would would be the targets.
Sarah Palin, what happens when you equate your political opponents with your battlefield enemies? People die.
If any reporters out there want to try to tell the story behind the blood bath that has been 2009, watch FOX.
UPDATE: 6-11-2009: After the assassination of an OB/GYN doctor at an abortion clinic in Kansas, and the attack on the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white-supremacist and "birther" this video from Media Matters says it all:
This place is too conservative to work.
Labels: media
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
No Commerce Weekends in NYC - Episode. 1
New York City has this new feature called "No Commerce Weekends" that I'll document with periodic blog posts. It's a whiz-bang idea from Bloomberg and the MTA: make it impossible for people to leave the house on weekends thus stalling commerce and plunging the city into a Depression. I like the name.
The main way that the city will kill itself over the next year of weekends will be by stifling the ability to travel.
This episode explores how my attempt this weekend to spend money downtown near the Manhattan-approach to The Brooklyn Bridge was rejected by the city.
Tune in next time I try to spend money on the weekend for a glimpse of the successful new project from New York City and the MTA:
I would love it if I had an easy interface to a map that showed, along a broken subway line, exactly how many stores and people are being screwed over at each closed station, delayed train, broken connection, etc. If 'No Commerce Weekends' really takes off, I may just have to build such a website.
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The main way that the city will kill itself over the next year of weekends will be by stifling the ability to travel.
This episode explores how my attempt this weekend to spend money downtown near the Manhattan-approach to The Brooklyn Bridge was rejected by the city.
2:00 pm Saturday.
Origin - 72nd Street 1,2,3 Station - 'No Commerce Weekend' special:
no trains came for 20 minutes!
2:20 pm 2 Express train arrives - 'No Commerce Weekend' feature:
only running local!
2:30 pm transfer at Times Square to N, R, W, Q
2:40 pm R train arrives - 'No Commerce Weekend' feature:
not going downtown! instead, going over Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn!
2:55 pm transfer at Canal Street to 4, 5, 6 - 'No Commerce Weekends' feature:
half hour train delay!
3:30 pm 4 Train arrives - 'No Commerce Weekend' feature:
not stopping at Brooklyn Bridge City Hall!
3:50 pm Train arrives at Fulton Street. - 'No Commerce Weekend' free bonus:
10 degrees fahrenheit!
4:10 pm Store did not have everything I needed, they suggested I go to the Upper East Side location. No.
4:30 pm Walk across town to Chambers Street 2,3
4:45 pm arrive at Chambers Street.
5:05 pm 2 train arrives - 'No Commerce Weekends' feature:
only running local!
5:55 pm train arrives at 72nd Street.
Tune in next time I try to spend money on the weekend for a glimpse of the successful new project from New York City and the MTA:
No Commerce Weekends.
Fuck you.
I would love it if I had an easy interface to a map that showed, along a broken subway line, exactly how many stores and people are being screwed over at each closed station, delayed train, broken connection, etc. If 'No Commerce Weekends' really takes off, I may just have to build such a website.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Thicket of the Law
Something about Alberto Gonzalez and James Comey made me think of this scene from A Man for All Seasons. Who would Sir Thomas More be?
ALICE - He is! Arrest him!
MARGARET - Father, that man's bad.
MORE - There is no law against that.
ROPER - There is! God's law!
MORE - Then God can arrest him.
ROPER - Sophistication upon sophistication!
MORE - No, sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal.
ROPER - Then you set man's law above God's!
MORE - No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact-I'm not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there, thank God . . .
(He says this last to himself)
ALICE - (Exasperated, pointing after RICH) While you talk, he's gone!
MORE - And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
ROPER - So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
MORE - Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
ROPER - I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
MORE - (Roused and excited) Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
ROPER - I have long suspected this; this is the golden calf; the law's your god.
MORE - (Wearily) Oh, Roper, you're a fool, God's my god . . . . (Rather bitterly) But I find him rather too subtle . . . I don't know where he is nor what he wants.
ROPER - My god wants service, to the end and unremitting; nothing else!
MORE - (Dryly) Are you sure that's God? He sounds like Moloch. But indeed it may be God- And whoever hunts for me, Roper, God or Devil, will find me hiding in the thickets of the law! And I'll hide my daughter with me! Not hoist her up the mainmast of your seagoing principles! They put about too nimbly! ¶ 11:09 AM 0 comments
ALICE - He is! Arrest him!
MARGARET - Father, that man's bad.
MORE - There is no law against that.
ROPER - There is! God's law!
MORE - Then God can arrest him.
ROPER - Sophistication upon sophistication!
MORE - No, sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal.
ROPER - Then you set man's law above God's!
MORE - No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact-I'm not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there, thank God . . .
(He says this last to himself)
ALICE - (Exasperated, pointing after RICH) While you talk, he's gone!
MORE - And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
ROPER - So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
MORE - Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
ROPER - I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
MORE - (Roused and excited) Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
ROPER - I have long suspected this; this is the golden calf; the law's your god.
MORE - (Wearily) Oh, Roper, you're a fool, God's my god . . . . (Rather bitterly) But I find him rather too subtle . . . I don't know where he is nor what he wants.
ROPER - My god wants service, to the end and unremitting; nothing else!
MORE - (Dryly) Are you sure that's God? He sounds like Moloch. But indeed it may be God- And whoever hunts for me, Roper, God or Devil, will find me hiding in the thickets of the law! And I'll hide my daughter with me! Not hoist her up the mainmast of your seagoing principles! They put about too nimbly! ¶ 11:09 AM 0 comments
