Brought to my attention through wendyknits.com, I present for your purusal this priceless tidbit from slate.com. I hope the link works because there's no other way to truly appreciate this article.

http://www.slate.com/id/2144722/entry/2144723/

As Wendy stated in her blog, "I think I'm going to patent my knitting style. Then everyone who knits like me will have to pay me a per-stitch royalty."

Sheesh.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken

Bureucratic absurdity makes sense to me.

If you posted a thread called bureucratic logic, my head would have exploded.

Yes, I think I'll patent my method for walking.

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* Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

~Ron Paul

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison