Random linkage

From Making Light:

Huh. Go up against the medical establishment, get laughed at, eventually get proved right, win a Nobel Prize. Cool.

Wow, Harry Truman really said this?

"I feel that if our constitutional system ever fails, it will be because people got scared and turned hysterical and someone in power will demagogue them right into a police state of some kind. That's what I've always worried about. And still do."

(From TPMCafe.)