P.J. O’Rourke Quote – Legislation
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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Lorne Michaels Quote – Talent and Character
“Sadly, talent and character do not often reside in the same person.” – Lorne Michaels
Read moreCartoon – Fanatical Terrorists
T.S. Eliot Quote – Give The Public What It Wants
“Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.” – T.S. Eliot
Read moreSocial media: Now, even babies tweet
“Harper Estelle Wolfeld-Gosk has 6,282 Twitter followers,” said Joe Coscarelli in NYMag.com. “She’s 2 weeks old.” The infant daughter of Today show correspondent Jenna Wolfe is just one of thousands of kids who have Twitter accounts that are written in their voices but are “set up, maintained, and authored by parents.” Here’s a sample of little Harper’s tweets: “Pooped AND […]
Read moreAmbrose Redmoon Quote – Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear” – Ambrose Redmoon
Read morePoem – Hero or Zero (By Ray Gallucci)
HERO OR ZERO? To die on the battlefield leading a charge, Your body upon a shield, burned in a barge – An image heroic of Viking portrayal Approvingly stoic, quite worthy of hail. The fireman rushing pall-mall into blaze As on 9-11, the last of his days. No body recovered from building’s collapse. Just wife, children, mother to […]
Read moreMahatma Gandhi Quote – Man Becomes What He Believes Himself To Be
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even […]
Read moreToxins Should We Be Concerned?
We should be aware of the products that we are consuming and letting our children consume. When companies spray pesticides, it gets into the food that we eat and then eventually into our bodies. The EPA ran tests on the food that we eat like fruits, vegetables, and dairy and found that over 50% of the items tested showed that […]
Read morePriests attack gays
Tbilisi, Georgia Orthodox priests led a mob of some 20,000 people in an attack on a small gay-rights rally in the Georgian capital last week. On a new crusade Television images showed priests throwing rocks, punching people, and pounding the buses that were trying to evacuate the marchers. Dozens of people were injured. “I am not able to either condemn […]
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