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.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Another Liberal Complaint
E. J. Dionne complains that conservatives aren't deferring to our fine young president and according him sufficient civility in public discourse [here]. I would suggest that conservatives owe Obie just as much deference and civility as liberals accorded Dubya. No more, and no less. It was liberals, starting with the Nixon haters and the anti-war protesters of the Vietnam Era, who degraded political discourse in America. Until they admit such and apologize profusely for their past errors, they have absolutely nothing about which to complain.