Quote of the week about our abuse of the world freedom

"In our current popular and political culture, the very word 'freedom' has so many different meanings to so many people that it has ceased to have much collective meaning. To paraphrase (or bastardize) the Kris Kristofferson song, freedom's just another word we use when we have nothing else to say. It can alternately be used to describe our right to free speech or the availability of 53 types of toilet paper. Or the right to sit in the middle of the street, or the right not to have our day disrupted by such public disobedience. To others, freedom means providing all with the basics of life, while some are certain it guarantees the right to gain as much personal advantage as possible, even at the expense of the most disadvantaged ... In the end, the freest society is perhaps one in which we never finally agree." --Marc Cooper.