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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: It is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Woodchucks

May 28th, 2007 by Bitterman

I was thinking about woodchucks recently. Everybody says they can't chuck wood, but has anybody tested that hypothesis? Maybe they can chuck wood and they just haven't because nobody has made them. It makes sense. Why chuck wood if you don't have to? Apparently people will do it because of their blind faith that the woodchucks, despite their names implying that they are indeed chuckers of wood, cannot actually chuck the wood.

They're all having a great big laugh at us. Oh yes. Believe you me, this is the last time I'm chucking the wood. Let the stupid woodchuck do it next time. Isn't that what they're for?

Bitterman