Saturday, May 31, 2008

Quote of the Day

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
-- Dave Barry

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-30
- Electric Computers
- Sign of the times
- Is Barack Obama Muslim?
- Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-23
- 50 Cult Books
- Miscellaneous Links
- Reading: _Fifty Degrees Below_
- Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-16
- More like this

Friday, May 30, 2008

Quote of the Day

You look like a woman who appreciates the finer things in life. Come over here and feel my velour bedspread.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Quote of the Day

The think tanks that incubated the Iraq war have lofty names like the Heritage Foundation and the Project for a New American Century. Whatever. They've been wrong so often, I'm surprised they're not my broker.
-- Bill Maher

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Quote of the Day

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Quote of the Day

No one has an idea really of where we should draw the line. What about the Bible? Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. You have Shakespeare and you have Sophocles--what are we going to do, lose Oedipus Rex if someone pokes an eye out?
-- Penn Jillette, from Reason magazine, on censorship of violent TV shows

Monday, May 26, 2008

Quote of the Day

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Quote of the Day

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-- Oscar Wilde (The Portrait of Mr. W.H.)