Category: Quote
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Beck on Trump
“This guy is dangerously unhinged. And, for all the things people have said about me over the years, I should be able to spot Dangerously Unhinged.” –Glenn Beck, regarding Donald Trump
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Another Scalia Post–Enjoy The Quotes
Not always, but more often than not, I’ve disagreed with Antonin Scalia’s fiercely conservative judicial opinions, just as I disagree in principle with his deeply felt conviction in the philosophy of constitutional originalism. It’s not that my opinion on the subject matters much, or at all, but I do have my thinking moments, and in…
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Wednesday Words 10/28/15: Rocks
“I got a rock.” –Charlie Brown “Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special” –Chris Rock
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Wednesday Words 7/29: The Bible on Dog Vomit
Yes, my religious views have been well documented across the whirled why’d web, so you’re a little surprised to see me quoting “the good book” but there’s a lot of great stuff in there, some of it resoundingly, wonderfully evocative. Like this. Proverbs 26:11: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth…
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Wednesday Words (late) Ray Bradbury: If Only We Had Taller Been
I posted an NPR video a few days ago that featured this poem, and the video below, because it is SO DAMNED AWESOME, and because I’ve been reminded lately of how America, distracted by fear, anger, hate, suspicion, partisan caterwauling and self-serving rhetoric, has surrendered our collective zeal for greatness, settling for loudmouthed mediocrity. I…
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Wednesday Words: Edward Abbey, “Surfaces”
“I am pleased enough with the surfaces – in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child’s hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl’s thigh, the sunlight on…
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Wednesday Words: Theodore Roosevelt
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not it will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. — Theodore Roosevelt If you read me regularly, you know…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: W.E.B. Du Bois
One of the great writers and thinkers in the American legacy, the powerful and wonderfully controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois stands tall, his work growing in stature and significance as time passes, in the way certain monoliths seem not to dwindle in the the distance but rather to assert themselves by virtue of scale and prominence…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Jerry Falwell
“Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.” ~ Rev. Jerry Falwell *sometimes, we serve up wisdom in a little paper cup, coated in irony and Cool-Whip like a hot fudge sundae.
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Elmo Phillips
” You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman. Stuff you pay good money for in later life.” –Elmo Phillips
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