No-Brainer.

If I was in the National Guard and my choices were Iraq or Tijuana, I pick Tijuana.

The Fourth.

The 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution from the Bill of Rights:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

People who believe The Da Vinci Code is real are crazy...

From an article titled "'Code' a blessing for some churches":

Whether Brown's thriller deserves to be taken so seriously by religious leaders is unclear. A survey released this month by the Barna Group, a religious polling firm, found that 5 percent of U.S. adults who had read the book said it had changed some of their religious beliefs or perspectives.

Five percent does not equal a majority. A majority, by definition, is 50 percent plus one. The book is a rallying point for evangelicals (not that there's anything wrong with that). The Church shouldn't need an excuse to spread the Word. The 'Code' is not taking over the world.

The Da Vinci Code is a fictional book that the media has blown out of proportion to imply that the general public's conception and views of the Church are actively changing as a direct result.

We need people out on the front lines...

...including the crazies.

Twenty-two U.S. troops committed suicide in Iraq last year. That number accounts for nearly one in five of all noncombat deaths and was the highest suicide rate since the war started, the [Hartford Courant] said.

They're crazy, and they're killing themselves.

Sapere aude.

Latin for "dare to know" or "dare to be wise."

"Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty."
(Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace, II, 1795)

A Gambling Man.

Ahmad ibn Rustah was a 10th century Persian explorer who wrote about "a certain king of Caucasus":

"He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets.'"

Reminds me of Yann Martel's book, Life of Pi.

Know what's going on?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gave a speech to the Sierra Club in which he said,

"Eighty percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don't know what's going on."