One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
“In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.”
“If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.”