"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." -- Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - )

Don't get her (or me!) started: From an article on keeping resolutions over the long term in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis psychotherapist Margaret Churchill is quoted on another of my pet peeves: personal responsibility for obesity.

Don't get Margaret Churchill started on those lawsuits against fast-food chains. Those cases, she says, point to something many people have forgotten: What we eat has a definite relationship to our size. "There is a cause and effect, and somehow we want to be exempt," Churchill says. "Bodies don't become exempt, no matter how special we are." Not surprisingly, Churchill demands people take responsibility for what they eat.