Stray Voltage

The Brant's musings on politics, sports, economics, and whatever else springs to mind. I will, on occasion, pontificate for no apparent reason; other times I will simply re-publish what's already been written for elsewhere...
"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." [third-to-last para. Chapter 8] Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein