"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection." from Introduction to Liberty, John Stuart Mill 1806-1873 I was awakened this morning from a sound sleep by an errant smoke alarm whose battery had seen its end and felt the need to socialize. It was 5 am and, after attending to it, efforts to return to my slumber met with dismal failure as thoughts for my next blog raced through my head. It has been about a month from the previous post and I realized I could count the number of times I've left the house on two hands. This...