Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Nick M writing on the Libyan happenings If freedom is a loaded gun (and it is) then what is a rocket launcher on the back of a Hi-Lux? Nick M – CCinZ Answer: One of the few things I would … Continue reading →

Priests who could not read or who, from ignorance, stumbled stupidly through the ritual of the Eucharist were another scandal. A Bishop of Durham in 1318 could not understand or pronounce Latin and after struggling helplessly with the word Metropolitanus … Continue reading →

Hope is not a plan. Paul Krugman I distinctly remember that not being what you said in 2008, Paul.

Continuing on with the week’s format Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable. He would … Continue reading →

Continuing on with the week’s format A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Ralph Waldo Emerson – … Continue reading →

Continuing on with the theme I spoke of yesterday I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have … Continue reading →

Last week’s assignment in my Humanities class had us reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s treatise “Self-Reliance”. We were required to read it and then pull quotes from it and comment on them. I would like to present the quotes I chose … Continue reading →

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our two party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself. —Lewis Black, from his 2009 Comedy Central Special “Stark Raving Black.” That is how I feel sometimes, especially … Continue reading →