Speaking of "What Would Jefferson Do?" . . .

By shear coincidence, here's today's quote from the Future of Freedom Foundation's Email Update (http://www.fff.org/whatsNew/2006-07-08.htm):

Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams, Letter to John Taylor [April 15, 1814]