Speaking of Bad Ideas

The American Trucker Convoy Is a Really Bad Idea [More]

A worse idea is throwing people who are doing something under the bus. We all realize there could be embedded provocateurs, some low-hanging fruit, and some attempted trap set-ups. But the thing is underway, there are some good people participating, and this anonymous attack on people putting their real selves on the line by an anonymous self-styled keyboard "pundit," hiding behind a stupid screen name and a Jerry Seinfeld avatar,  reminds me of nothing so much as a Theodore Roosevelt quote:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

[Via bondmen]