February 11, 2026

Frasier Snowden said, “The only true philosophical question is Where do you draw the line?” Human beings invented line drawing, apparently without knowing what they were doing, raising questions the natural world had never considered. Establishing boundaries, creating borders. One of the Old Testament’s commandments that did not make the top ten is my personal fave: “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark.” If that were honored it would transform everything worldwide instantly. And what would become of “Your kind isn’t welcome here!”? Who could say that without erasing someone’s landmark? Imposing their idea of who does and who doesn’t have a right to existence? Deporting immigrants because they are different is removing their landmark by imposing someone else’s landmark on them. It is telling them they cannot sit at the front of the bus. Or anywhere on the bus.

Democracy’s most discounted, dismissed, ignored regulation is, “No one is above the law.” Meaning, “Only outlaws are beyond the law!” When all it takes is enough money and status to be able to ignore all laws. Which is to say one thing and do another. And get by with it forever. Leaving us with the only viable option for making things as they should be: Move far away and visit seldom.

No?