i found this oddly reassuring.
Manufacturing guy-at-large.
what is this
via the always brilliant Language Log.
chicken & egg
bad news
wantwantwant.
brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis Brandeis, Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).