Europe is bled regularly by war. America is pacifistic and cannibalistic. Outwardly it seems to be a beautiful honeycomb, with all the drones crawling over each other in a frenzy of work; inwardly it’s a slaughterhouse, each man killing off his neighbor and sucking the juice from his bones. Superficially it looks like a bold, […]
The late U.S. President Gerald Ford has been at the receiving end of snide remarks from so many corners. Here are two amusing potshots at Ford, both from LBJ: * So dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time. * That’s what happens when you play football too long without a helmet. […]
If the Church of Scientology went into consumer electronics it would be Apple – Dan Lyons in The Times. Folks, if you love technology, you must read the piece on Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the Sunday Times.
[F]rugality is an enriching virtue, a virtue I could never acquire in myself. – Benjamin Franklin, cited in Cheap by Ellen Ruppell Shell (New York: Penguin Press, 2009) P.53
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. – William Hazlitt in the essay On Going a Journey p.140 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)
The world is full of dangerous beasts – but none quite as ugly or uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of reason. He will run completely amok – like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling the contraband. – Hunter Thompson on William […]