Thursday, August 06, 2009

Yesterday ...

... as Dave Lull reminds me in an email, I said in reference to a comment on one of the posts here that "I think that a few good, clear laws could do the trick." In connection with that, Dave sends along this: The Birth of Common Sense?

1 comment:

  1. In furtherance of the notion that simple is often better, even in the opaque and Byzantine world of laws and statutes, I offer the following from Thoreau:

    "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose."

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