I write what I believe, and I would do so even if I were the only person who thought as I do. I’m poor at predicting which posts will generate email, but I can see that the post immediately before this one has elicited quite a few messages, even in these several hours. See, Objections and Replies on Independent Commentary. Thank you for your kind remarks.
It’s not a detailed post, but as someone mentioned, it’s a “feisty and rhetorical” one. Yes, it surely is.
Posts like this — and far more polished ones — are part of our way of life. Not the way of life of some faraway or imaginary people, but of the people of this continent. This is part of our tradition, our rich heritage. We would be right to defend and embrace this way even if we had nothing else. We may hope for many things (some deserved, some not), but if it should be that we have only this, still we’ll be fortunate.
More important, we embrace this way with the conviction that as we would defend expression, even more so would we defend those we love. One contends on public matters for the betterment of other, higher things.
How ’bout a badger photo, for some feisty readers?
