Travelling with Terry

One day I will find myself in India,breathing in the fresh air on the unfamiliar streets. Perhaps also in Mainland China,with my heavy backpack in the places where I have never been.

While everyone is wholeheartedly wishing that they can embrace diversity,they are disappointed to discover that they have fallen in love with security.I need an injection to boost my immunity against the force of routine,because there are so many things that I have not yet seen.

If Terry needs an injection, how much more the rest of us?

Freedom and Permission

"Americans are still permitted to do a great many things, though not as many things as their ancestors could take for granted. Fine. But permission isn’t freedom. The privilege of a subject isn’t the right of a free man." - Joseph Sobran.

Foreign Policy

"Your authors have no position on foreign policy. We only notice that the people who do have them are idiots." -Bill Bonner.


(I used to not like Mr. Bonner's writing. But he's growing on me.)

Morbid Thought

Bill Bonner found this in the Daily Mail. (I couldn't find it online at their website.)

Generally...it appears to take around 30 seconds to lose consciousness after decapitation. We know this from the French Revolution and the liberal use
of the guillotine. The condemned were asked to blink if they were still alert after their heads have been removed from their body. Records show that it took between 20 and 30 seconds for the heads to stop blinking.

Yikes.