Rich Mayfield: Free speech keeps us free
                   
vaildaily.com
30-Aug-2008
        

Perusing the news from Beijing put me in mind of a passage from Joseph Heller’s fine evocation of the absurdities inherent in the institutional mindset: “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon... [read full story]                    

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