“How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can’t say and what we can show and what we can’t show — it’s enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, on censorship in “The Man Who Sold the Moon” (1951)
Bea Lever
April 24, 2016 3:15 pm
T4C- I thought Stucky was to fill in for Admin on Sundays. Has his dad had a turn for the worse? I pray not.
Ed
April 24, 2016 4:09 pm
Fake Lincoln quotes are everywhere on the internet, too. Do a websearch for “fake lincoln quotes”, and you’ll turn up websites that list which ones are fake.
Albrecht
April 24, 2016 9:33 pm
Whether Twain said it or not it’s pretty good. On the other hand few in the 19th Century could foresee an age when the printed word would be increasingly marginalized and a significant fraction of the average person’s media consumption would consist of images and videos of people being sodomized.
Misattributed. Actually, it’s:
“How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can’t say and what we can show and what we can’t show — it’s enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, on censorship in “The Man Who Sold the Moon” (1951)
T4C- I thought Stucky was to fill in for Admin on Sundays. Has his dad had a turn for the worse? I pray not.
Fake Lincoln quotes are everywhere on the internet, too. Do a websearch for “fake lincoln quotes”, and you’ll turn up websites that list which ones are fake.
Whether Twain said it or not it’s pretty good. On the other hand few in the 19th Century could foresee an age when the printed word would be increasingly marginalized and a significant fraction of the average person’s media consumption would consist of images and videos of people being sodomized.