Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mommy, Mommy! (Five Years Later)


Last month, a man was arrested for jay-walking.
Today, he was sentenced to twenty-nine years in jail.

Mother was indignant and paralyzed by paranoia. All she could think was: "This is a ‘Police State’ and the law is in dirty blue hands." But in her hands, there was incomplete information.

The jay-walker was stopped by the police because he was Wanted by the FBI for having robbed three banks in Wisconsin. Why bother with all the facts when it is so much faster to pass judgment?

There is a greater danger in having partial information than having no information at all.

Context is everything.

No comments: