“I Done Wet My Britches”

You can keep your Cal-Stanford “Play”, the Music City Miracle, Flutie’s Hail Mary, even Belue-to-Scott… give me Plano vs. John Tyler 1994, because this is the most entertaining final five minutes of any football game I’ve ever seen.

Happy Birthday, Nana

Friday Detritus

1. Youtube: The Greatest Movie Chase Scene Ever.
2. Free long distance calling to any business in the U.S. using Google Maps. This is a pretty cool idea, especially if you make a bunch of LD calls. (via Dumb Little Man)
3. Obits: Farewell to Jack Palance, Ed Bradley, the world’s greatest libertarian economist, and (pardon the cheese) the soundtrack of much of my childhood.

“The two ideas of human freedom and economic freedom working together came to their greatest fruition in the United States. Those ideas are still very much with us. We are all of us imbued with them. They are part of the very fabric of our being. But we have been straying from them. We have been forgetting the basic truth that the greatest threat to human freedom is the concentration of power, whether in the hands of government or anyone else. We have persuaded ourselves that it is safe to grant power, provided it is for good reasons. Fortunately, we are waking up. We are again recognizing the dangers of an overgoverned society, coming to understand that good objectives can be perverted by bad means, that reliance on the freedom of people to control their own lives in accordance with their own values is the surest way to achieve the full potential of a great society.” — Milton Friedman (1912-2006)