“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Dear Amarillo Globe-Republican,

There you go again. You contradicted yourself. In a February 7 editorial you praised the Amarillo City Commission for sending the proposed ban on smoking in public places back to the voters. You did it yesterday, too, going a step further and pooh-poohing those Yankee lawmakers in Maryland who plan to vote on a similar measure themselves. State legislators proposing legislation and then voting on it? Who do they think they are?

Curiously, though, yesterday's other editorial, right below the first, exalts the Borger City Council for voting on a curfew that keeps kids under 17 off the streets at night. Uh...shouldn't the Borger City Council have sent the issue to the voters so they could decide for themselves?

It would seem defending your political allies has more to do with your position than anything resembling logic.