Comments on: The Measure of a Man

By: Holly in Cincinnati

Holly in Cincinnati — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:14:49 +0000

Hmm, I should be the resident expert on Rita Mae Brown!

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:24:14 +0000

Paul, I didn’t know obviously – google provides the answers to a lot of questions;)

By: SteveK

SteveK — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:01:18 +0000

Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

Perhaps Mark Twain?

And then again maybe it was Kilgore Trout… (g)

By: Kim Ritter

Kim Ritter — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:31:22 +0000

Yes, Captain Ed is correct. It is past time to move beyond this test of a man’s fitness for office. Now if we could move beyond the factors of race, sex and religion as criteria, we might be on our way to making sensible voting choices.

Drug use is something the nation decided was irrelevant when they twice voted in an ex-alcholic, coke abuser who turned his life around at 40. Wouldn’t it be a little hypocritical to care about it with Obama???

By: Paul Silver

Paul Silver — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:29:35 +0000

Rita Mae Brown.
Michael, you know more about US culture than those of us raise here.
You are sort of TMV version of De Tocqueville.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:01:08 +0000

I googled it. Seems to be some confusion about it, although it might have been from Rita Mae Brown.

Then.. why is it called hornig’s law or something?

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:59:58 +0000

I don't know, let me google it. They seem to call it Higdon's Law. or... Jim Horning Or... Unknown???? From that last one: "Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning Quotations by unknown authors" Or Rita Mae? Indeed Rita Mae Brown?? I G.I.V.E. U.P.

By: Paul Silver

Paul Silver — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:54:11 +0000

Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

Perhaps Mark Twain?

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:22:41 +0000

LOL I initially thought that you, Paul, published this post. Then I saw that you commented on it (in my mind ‘as well’)…

Anyway, I agree Pete, great post over at Ed Morrissey’s place. Posts like this show why Ed is respected by so many people, independent of whether or not those people agree with his politics.

Paul:

Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

Great quote. From your own, or are you quoting someone else?

I am delighted that personal affairs are becoming less relevant to determining who has the best judgement to be a leader. What does a latex fetish have to do with balancing the budget?

Exactly. Whether or not Obama used drugs when he was 20 years younger is completely irrelevant.

By: Paul Silver

Paul Silver — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:08:21 +0000

Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

I am delighted that personal affairs are becoming less relevant to determining who has the best judgement to be a leader. What does a latex fetish have to do with balancing the budget?