'Differently Similar'

'One of the ways in which people are similar is in the lengths to which they will go in order to show that they are different. Over the years, slowly but surely, we have painted ourselves into a corner on a whole range of issues, where we can no longer say or do what makes the most sense to us, but only what is considered to be politically correct.

The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchword could stop people from thinking for 50 years. The big catchword this election year is "change"-- and it has already stopped many people's thinking in its tracks.'

- Thimas Sowell, 'Random Thoughts'.