NP: If only someone had *told* us about all this surveillance

[David Morris]

Rampart is a Big Wall, like China's.  It is a defense against attack. It is
also a station from whence a counter attack may be done.  Arrows, boiling
oil, all that.

On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:

> What th' heck is a rampart anyway?
>
> I tend to picture the underside of a farm animal...so okay, it's a
> defensive fortification, so where is the connection for a liberal Catholic
> magazine to use that for a name?  A-and how about those liberal Catholics
> anyway?  Some surprisingly cool stuff from them!
>
> But anyway, thanks for the link!  The whole run of them is online
> http://www.unz.org/Pub/Ramparts and I hope to read all of them someday,
> along with Paul Krassner's Realist http://www.ep.tc/realist/
>
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