The Ponderosa: RIP Barney Martin ...

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Thursday, March 24, 2005

RIP Barney Martin ...

aka, Morty Seinfeld ...

'Seinfeld' Actor Barney Martin Dies at 82

We've always loved Barney Martin. From an appearance on "Car 54", to his role in "The Odd Couple's" "The Jury Story" (where Felix and Oscar are portrayed as meeting for the first time, in direct contradiction of the show's opening, which described them as "lifelong friends") to his best work, as the TV dad of Jerry Seinfeld, Martin has ALWAYS made us laff.

Tomorrow, our beltless raincoats will fly at half staff.

"My wallet's gone. MY WALLET'S GONE!"

Thank you, sir, for all the laffs.

Barney's TV credits

The Ponderosa

Thursday, March 24, 2005

RIP Barney Martin ...

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