To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Missing People
Activists and the MSM keep telling us that is is a terrible thing that so few people from New Orleans' ninth ward have returned to their homes. My Louisiana correspondent explains why -- only 27% of the ward's pre-Katrina residents actually owned the homes in which they lived. No job, no home, no incentive to return. Simple.