A nation founded on immorality

I read with inter­est the blawr­gu­ment (I might need an inter­ven­tion with all these pseudo-words) regard­ing whether break­ing the law is, in itself, an immoral act. The dis­cus­sion went from pros­e­cu­tor to defender, across the coun­try, and it cov­ered most of the issues, specif­i­cally revolv­ing around the moral­ity of plead­ing not guilty when the defen­dant did com­mit a crime.

The point I found myself pon­der­ing is this: When the found­ing fathers rebelled against the Eng­lish, break­ing the laws of their par­ent nation, did that make them immoral? Are we, as Amer­i­cans, a nation founded on immoral­ity? If not, where lies the difference?

Published on 01/08/2009 8:37 pm.
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I can quit anytime I want

Like most other twit­ter users, I have been afflicted recently by the slow­down and gen­eral wonk­i­ness of twit­ter. Where is this plague com­ing from? Who shall we blame? Well, we know who to blame… obvi­ously Israel.

I did notice, how­ever, that my behav­ior as a result of this twit­ter brown-out was wor­ry­ing, to say the least. My trusty Tweet­Deck was fail­ing me (ok, to be fair, it’s the twit­ter API that’s fail­ing) so I found myself refresh­ing the twit­ter home­page sev­eral times a minute. Why?

It would seem that I am addicted to twit­ter. This is not some­thing I am proud of, but I take solace in the knowl­edge that many of my fel­low twit­tites share my obses­sion. The num­ber of tweets refer­ring to how slowly twit­ter is updat­ing and how it is affect­ing them assures me of that.

I would go on, but I noticed that the main part of my post is just under 140 words. You understand…

Published on 01/08/2009 1:21 pm.
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