Quote of the Day
June 9, 2016
“Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself.” –Elizabeth Warren
Quote of the Day
June 7, 2016
“People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it’s a much better argument against foxholes.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Fantasy Quotes
June 7, 2016
“In politics, money buys influence.”—Hillary Clinton “There’s no free lunch.”—Bernie Sanders “I’m sorry. I should never have said such a stupid thing”—Donald Trump “It’s hard to overestimate the importance of America’s moral leadership in the world.”—Noam Chomsky “Keep it simple.”—Jacques Derrida “Life is completely meaningless, and trying to make sense of it is a futile … More Fantasy Quotes
Quote of the Day
June 6, 2016
“Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.” ― … More Quote of the Day
Telling It Like It Is
June 6, 2016
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a reputation among his supporters of “telling it like it is,” by which they seem to mean that Trump says what’s on their minds. If that’s what Trump is doing, he must think his supporters’ minds are filled with anti-Latino bias and bigotry. When the Latina governor of New … More Telling It Like It Is
Quote of the Day
June 5, 2016
“Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.”–Czesław Miłosz
Trump University–WTF?
June 5, 2016
Here is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of university: University: an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically : one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor’s degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may … More Trump University–WTF?
Quote of the Day
June 4, 2016
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven’t committed.”—Anthony Powell
Quote of the Day
June 3, 2016
“Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.” ― Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
Taking the Cat to the Vet
June 3, 2016
As our kids were growing up, we went through several cats, a couple of guinea pigs, and one dog, a Norwegian Elkhound, as family pets. The first cat we had was a black and white cat that for some reason we named Pumpkin. Maybe we had got Pumpkin close to Halloween. She was a nice … More Taking the Cat to the Vet
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