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FIREWORKS SAFETY. I say, do it yourself if you want, just be smart. ?Leave it to the trained profe?

By Glenn Reynolds

FIREWORKS SAFETY. I say, do it yourself if you want, just be smart. “Leave it to the trained professionals” is one of the cancerous mantras of our age, and there’s a big difference between setting off your own fireworks and sitting passively while others do it for you — the difference, if I may say so, between having sex and watching porn. And, in both cases, the presence of a degree of risk is part of the difference . . . . Some related thoughts on this subject are here.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).