Thanks for the Memories

I’d like to thank folks who stopped by yesterday for leaving their answers to my question in the comments.

If you didn’t stop by yesterday (tsk, tsk) and want to read the question, go ahead and then please leave your answers here.

The reason I asked for your memorable literature is that I’m thinking of firing up the long missing “Quote of the Day” category of posts and wanted some new material.

I also asked because I am re-reading one of the books I consider to be influential to my current political viewpoints.

“The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America” by Philip K Howard was like a 10 ton heavy thing dropped on the head of the idealistic kid I was then. It made so much sense to me that it scared a few of my also idealistic friends when I would answer to their “So whats that you’re reading?” question.

A few weeks back, I was going through the stuff I packed up the first time the wife and I was having at the time when I found it again. It hit me that it had been over five years since I had opened it’s cover and I proceeded to put it on the bookshelf in the “On Deck” spot.

I’ve recently cracked it open again and found a goodly amount of material that would fit into the “Quote of the Day” format and decided that I wanted more ideas for books that I could use for that purpose.

And for those, I needed the RNS readership.

Like I said at the beginning; if you have an idea for a book that I could/should read/use and either don’t see it in the comments of yesterday’s post or you did see it there and want to second that emotion, let me know here. I will try to make it an everyday thing, but I cannot promise that right this moment.

And so, to start out there series:

So far in my adult life nothing significant seems to have changed, except that government has become increasingly distant. “The characteristic complaint of our time seems to be not that government provides no reasons,” said fomer justice William Brennan, “but that its reasons often seem remote from human beings who must live with the consequences.” Government acts like some extraterrestrial power, not an institution that exists to serve us.

Philip K. Howard – The Death of Common Sense