"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Looking back at the Lodge skillet that I originally bought to take camping, I’d say there was nothing actually wrong with it. Lodge makes a great product; it just wasn’t finished. Back in the old days, the cast iron cookware manufacturers — including Lodge — finished off their cookware by milling the cooking surface to a glassy-smooth finish. Why did they stop doing that? "
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