Lawyers help murder accused escape, In the beginning was the joke,

Attention Iftikhar Chaudhry: Living up to their repute, a group of lawyers attacked the police and got a murder accused freed soon after his bail was rejected by the Lahore High Court on Tuesday. Lawyers help murder accused escape


So what are we here for? Your modern neo-Darwinist is perfectly certain—for no reason. That just doesn’t cut it for me. I mean, it may be true, but it doesn’t help me get through Thursday. I prefer this take by the composer Aaron Copland (simply replace the word "music" with the word "life"): "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’" I don’t know the meaning of things any more than Copland knew the meaning of music. But it’s certainly a lot of fun speculating about it. Jokes and laughter enrich and stimulate the journey. This line by Oliver Edwards, quoted in James Boswell’s The Life of Johnson, sums it up: "I have tried too, in my time, to be a philosopher, but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." In the beginning was the joke

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