Validation
Greg Gauthier has a thoughtful and thought-provoking post up at the Daily Anarchist titled “Who’s Your Daddy?”, wherein he questions the propensity to quote the Founding Fathers in support of this, that, and the other, and suggests it’s symptomatic of a juvenile lack of confidence in our own powers of intellect and judgment. As someone who’s quoted more than his fair share of Thomas Jefferson around here, I see his point, but have a slightly different take on the matter.