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March 18, 2024

Archives for September 2018

High School Boys.

I grew up in an area with a couple of Catholic schools, (that went to at least 8th grade), 5 public elementary schools, a public Jr., (7th &8th grades),  H.S. and a LARGE public H.S. Yes, the single largest “ethnicity” in town was people of Italian, (or at least Mediterranean*), heritage.  For the most part,

“The Government That Governs Least….”

An “all taxation is theft” and “No government is the best government”. The second part is a derivation of “The government that governs best is the one that governs least”. Generally attributed to Thoreau in his 1849 “Civil Disobedience”  where what he said was “The best government is that which governs least”   Thoreau wasn’t a