Category: Words

ACC dead at 90 A great writer. Religion is the by-product of fear. -Arthur C. Clarke

Happy Saint Patrick’s day. And remember kids, the Irish were the original Mexicans in the USofA. Have a Guinness or six, mates.

“The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance.  There also must be eternal advance.  We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.” — Henry Demarest Lloyd Oh how far we have traveled.  Paine wept.

By CSW Their parents have been called the greatest generation — those who sacrificed and came together during the depression and world war two. The final word has not yet been written on their children — the ones coming up today. But, the “baby boomers”, they are the worst generation. Over and over again they…

Satan Frog Giant frog found in Madagascar A giant frog that hopped around Madagascar 65–70 million years ago has been discovered. Fossil fragments show that the frog, called Beelzebufo ampinga, could have measured 20 centimetres across its squat head, and probably more than 40 centimetres from snout to tail. The researchers nicknamed the monstrous beast…

Shortly after arriving in the American colonies, Thomas Paine wrote, “I was struck with the order and decorum with which everything was conducted; and impressed with the idea, that a little more than what society naturally performed, was all the government that was necessary, and that monarchy and aristocracy were frauds and impositions on mankind.”…

中國木頭沒有好 (Chinese wood no good)

So, today’s New York Times has a funny op-ed by editor Clark Hoyt defending their hiring of fear monger number one Bill Kristol. Mr. Hoyt seems to think that little war-boy Billy will be no worse than Nixon water-carrier William Saffire. Mr. Hoyt types – “Everyone should take a deep breath and calm down. Saffire…