Monday-Wednesday, September 12-14, 2005: Law, Liberty & All That...

Nothing I'm at liberty to report for the beginning of the week.  It's busy in the office with hearings, and I've been writing up a storm.  And when we did go out Wednesday night, I forgot the camera.  Damn!  So I leave you with the following quote from the redoubtable H.L. Mencken, a reliable curmudgeon and occasional truth-talker:

"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air - that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave." -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

And here he is with his famous "beer breakfast" protest to prohibition.  A man after my own heart!