Anniversaries again

I noticed everyone was talking about the fifth anniversary of the WTC disaster yesterday. I went to the gyn. for my regular checkup. It was nice to see Dr. Tackitt again. He had a training nurse practitioner do the PAP smear. She was very gentle; I hope she has a nice career, because we need more people in the medical field.

This is always more my annual evaluation time than New Year's or any other holiday. When I was in school, this was back-to-school time. I always have my annual checkup around this time; now there's Dragon*Con and 9/11 and Katrina in the mix.

Dragon*Con really took over that whole role for me, even though it was July 4 weekend when I started attending. I remember when I went in 1991, it was all about being in touch with people (even though my father had just died) so that I wouldn't completely sink into depression. Again in 1993, it was a chance to pick myself up after a rough time in my life. Those two years set the trend, and ever since, I have spent Dragon*Con catching up with old friends, re-evaluating, and "girding my loins" for the year ahead.

( This is what happened this year. )

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I keep hearing people say paradoxical things like, the constitution doesn't guarantee privacy. I think that was Bork's fault?

That's what "civil" rights define: what makes you a person, what is personal, and therefore you have a right to restrict access to it. That IS privacy, isn't it?

Isn't privacy the right to not tell people who you talk to, or what you say to them? Isn't it the right not to have people go through your stuff? Isn't this WHY we wrote those amendments?

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There is a need to talk about sensibility. The people who talk about how people should think and write laws respected the senses of the people. The masses may suck at governing, but they're great at forming societies. When we take over their job, and force them to form society through the hand of the law, we've distorted something natural.

It is not that a man makes billions, but that he can buy a whole community with it, including its government.

If we don't uphold the rights and the responsibilities of citizenship, no one will achieve it, or mayhap even aspire to it. Appoint people who think about these things, uphold it as a duty and a sovereign trust again. We've accepted corruption too long.