COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Monday, December 24, 2007

Not Your Dad's Christmas Lights



4 comments:

  1. A poor, poor attempt to keep up with a 1960 Ford F-600 and wheels outlined with lights, including the CB antenna!

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  2. If the neighbors start a petition over your Christmas lights, you might be a redneck.

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  3. I wonder how much damage it does to the faith of a child when he is set up with a belief in Santa and then later disabused of that notion. How many of them equate God with Santa and go on to become atheists?

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  4. My hunch is not many. At least from the Santa business...Merry Christmas, T!

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