“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” ― Emily Dickinson
"Anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.” -Stanley Auerwas
The Affordable Health Care for Americans Act, passed by the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009, was 1,990 pages long. You could stand on it to paint the ceiling. The entire U.S. Constitution can be printed on eight pages. That's eight pages to run a whole country for 221 years versus four reams of government pig Latin if you slam your thumb in a car door. ― P.J. O'Rourke
If P.J. (a guy I went to school with) really believed that you could run the entire country on the Constitution alone, he was about two hundred years out of date. It's like saying that you don't really need the house itself as long as you've got the blueprints for it.
It likely also came as a great relief to the Indianapolis Colts, who Saturday choked a 33-0 lead in losing to the Minnesota Vikings, but could now look at the Patriots game finish say: At least we didn’t do that. From WSJ columnist Jason Gay's column about the end of Sunday's Patriots' game. (Sorry, Homer.)
Haha. It actually didn't bother me much. That's what crappy teams do... lose crappily. If they were a good team it would have fried me, but when you have zero expectations....
From the Babylon Bee: Hallmark Researchers Say They Are Close To Developing A Second Movie Plot. Seemed fitting for this forum.
I may not remember correctly, but didn't Asimov have something like "violence is the last resort of the incompetent" in one of the Foundation books?
"Those with the heart to help have the right to criticise" --- Abe Lincoln "Those who worry if they're the problem are never the problem" --- A lovely receptionist-manager at a hot-desking office, reassuring me and a colleague that we weren't the target of a recently circulated passive aggressive email
"Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55 ... You enter the long dark teatime of the soul." --- Douglas Adams See also: Some sort of amazing quote on every third or forth page Adams ever wrote.
Anyone who isn't bollock naked on top the forth plinth in Trafalgar square with their mother's maiden name and name of their first pet written on each arse cheek has something to lose.
"Don't get drunk during the ambulance strikes" --- Official advice from the NHS in the UK Well, I mean, I'm not naturally contrary or anything, but I don't know about you... Alright, I'll leave it there and stop taking up thread space, sorry.
“It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.” ― Lao Tzu
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
