Running water makes you free. A toilet makes you free. One plumber is worth ten revolutionaries. I’m an engineer. I can make things. One engineer is worth fifty revolutionaries.

Seven Days in Entebbe

Garrison Keillor went down, but the dark money is still operating in Lake Wobegon unchecked.

Chapo Trap House, “Camp Donald”

Fishing Uni Knot

5280 Magazine, “High Country Hut Trips”

Palomar Fishing Knot

Fishing Clinch Knot

Bertrand Russell, “The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism”

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

2. Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.

3. Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

9. Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Lathe of Heaven”

It’s hard enough to start a revolution, even harder to sustain it and hardest of all to win it. But it’s only afterwards, once we’ve won, that the real difficulties begin.

The Battle of Algiers