“It’s no exaggeration to say the Senate health-care bill taking shape is the equivalent of climbing aboard a train about to plunge into a canyon and deciding what it really needs is a bomb on board.” (Holman Jenkins, by way of neo-neocon)
Aug 26 2009
He’s Not Talking About Me, Really
“The author is also reckless at times and subject to grandiose overstatements…”
– Robert Lund, reviewing Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan in the American Statistician, Nov 2007.
May 05 2009
Green Tip of the Day
“Compact fluorescent light bulbs use even less electricity if you just leave them on a store shelf.”
(HT: Frank at IMAO)
Mar 30 2009
QOTD
“Oh, Lord! Thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. March on, boys!”
- Sir Jacob Hill, 23 October 1642, before the Battle of Edgehill in the English Civil War
As if He could.
May 06 2008
Your Church and State Quote of the Day
“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”
(Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration and member of Continental Congress)
Apr 18 2008
Global Whining Quote of the Month
Apr 07 2008
Vaguely Theological Quote of the Day
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” (Stephen King)
Mar 06 2008
QOTD
Martin LaBar at Sun and Shield posts a great quote from Ursula LeGuin’s Left Hand of Darkness, ”
“. . . the mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.”
“If so,” said the stranger with fierce certainty, “it is an immoral mission.”
(The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, 1969), p. 104.
Jan 02 2008
Second Amendment Quote of the Day
Anti Gunner: “What shortcoming are you Gun Nuts trying to compensate for?”
Pro Gunner: “I am compensating for the fact that I can’t throw a rock at 1000 feet per second.”
Nuff said.
(HT: Mike101 on HuffPo)
Nov 29 2007
My Heart is Slow to Go to God
“I find that my heart is slow to go to God; and when it does go to Him it does not seem to want to stay with Him; so that very often I am forced in my prayers, first to beg of God that He would take my heart and set it on Himself, and then when it is there, that He would keep it there.”
John Bunyan
(HT: deTheos)
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