David Pogue: 13 years is a long time to stay in one place; we all thrive on new experiences.
Decius: Life is too short to spend 2300 hours a year working on someone else's idea of what the right problems are.
Dan Geer: The price of freedom is the probability of crime.
Christopher Glazek: Crime has not fallen in the United States -- it's been shifted. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women. Popular resentment against an authoritarian state shouldn't be denied or pooh-poohed -- it should be seized and marshaled toward progressive ends.
Tony Judt: The question is not going to be, Will there be an activist state? The question is going to be, What kind of an activist state?
Christopher Glazek: More African Americans are in prison today than were enslaved in the 1850s.
Dan Geer: As technology progresses, your choice will not be between Big Brother or no Big Brother, rather it is already between one Big Brother and lots of Little Brothers. Think carefully, yours is the last generation that will have a choice.
Decius: It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.
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