February 2012
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January 2012
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June 2011
1 post
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery”
– St. Augustine
May 2011
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March 2011
1 post
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to...”
– Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, CEO
November 2010
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September 2010
2 posts
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
2 posts
Separation of church and state is much less of a problem now than separation of large corporations and state. When do I get a separation of large corporations and the State?
There is less genetic variation in the entire human population than there is in just one troop of Chimpanzees in West Africa. When it comes to people, our physical differences between “races” are truly just skin deep. Take any two people from anywhere in the world and they will share over 99% of their DNA.
April 2010
2 posts
February 2010
2 posts
“The ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she stands in moments of...”
– Martin Luther King, Junior
January 2010
5 posts
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 2009
8 posts
Reminds me of people with degrees in Economics
Alien in "Doctor Who", giving aliens in a cruise ship overview of Earth: "...human beings worship the great god Santa, a creature with fearsome claws, and his wife Mary. And every Christmas eve, people of UK go to war with a country named Turkey. They, then, eat the Turkey people for Turkey dinner, like savages"
Doctor Who: "Where are you getting your information from?"
Alien: "I have a degree in Earthonomics"
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets...”
– George Orwell, in his “Notes on Nationalism”
November 2009
9 posts
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark...”
– Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)
Yikes, glad I am not a spider →
October 2009
5 posts
Judge denies interracial marriage. What the ... ? →
September 2009
37 posts
