Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really tired of seeing the two grinning “bobbleheads” standing behind President Donald Trump, shaking their heads in agreement with everything he utters—including his lies.

Does that not make them complicit?

Marilyn George

Lee’s Summit

“The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018

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…a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law….The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

In May 1977, in an essay entitled "Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty," the socialist G. A. Cohen (1941-2009) criticized an argument by the libertarian Robert Nozick (1938-2002). Late in his essay, Cohen wrote:

Nozick's claim about Z [a man who is faced with a choice between working for a capitalist and starving] is so implausible that it may seem puzzling, coming as it does from an extremely acute thinker.

At this point, Cohen dropped the following footnote:

Those who have read Nozick will know that this description is not ironical. For a short proof of Nozick's acuity, see the footnote on pp. 239-240 of Anarchy. [Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974)]

I reproduce Nozick's text and footnote:

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Whiplash Smile (1986). I know it sounds crazy, but Billy Idol's music gets better with each passing year.

It's easy to laugh this off, but descending at that speed, especially without a helmet, is deadly. Look how close the cyclists are to the cars coming toward them.