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• 22-Jun-2023
  Quotes of the Day ”Let us make recommendations to ensure that NASA officials deal in a world of reality in understanding technological weaknesses and imperfections well enough to be actively trying to eliminate them. They must live in reality in comparing the costs and utility of the Shuttle to other methods of entering space. And they must be realistic...
• 18-Jan-2022
  Quote of the Day, on Martin Luther King from Tony Pierce mlk makes me think you can do everything you can and it still wont change some people. which is a good thing to realize quickly. that way you dont waste your time doing things to change people. instead you should do things because theyre awesome, and maybe youre the best person to...
• 22-Mar-2010
  Very frank talk on Conservative Media from a conservative Frank talk about the interests of governance vs. conservative media in David Frum: Waterloo: I’ve been on a soapbox for months now about the harm that our overheated talk is doing to us. Yes it mobilizes supporters – but by mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives...
• 27-Feb-2010

  
  The Sky Above The Port The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. (image via suddenly and crossposted to Nueva Ciudad)
• 25-Feb-2010
  Lyrics of the Day; Dialogue of the Day Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates: Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack. Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack. Long we’ve tossed on the rolling main, now we’re safe ashore, Jack. Don’t forget yer old shipmates, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe! We have worked the self-same gun,...
• 22-Aug-2009

  
  “I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.” One of the funniest and most referenced lines by Leah and I from Mean Girls. I think we reference it to avoid the practice. It reminds me of one of my favorite Confucian dictums: “If I am walking with two other men, each of them I will serve as my teacher. I will pick out...
• 12-Aug-2009
  Goodness Knows Why Quote of the Day, from Film Director Peter Jackson I mean, personally I think that’s one of the most depressing things about the film industry generally today. The writers and directors should be blamed just as much as the studios because really everything seems to be a remake or adapting a 1970s TV show that...
• 04-Dec-2008
  Quote of the Day: Jason Zweig What A Bear Market Might Teach Us is well worth reading. So I know what it means to scrimp and save, to do more with less, even to do without. The most important lesson that I learned, I believe, is that money is not wealth. Benjamin Graham once wrote that the secret to happiness is...
• 30-Mar-2008
  Quote of the Day “It’s on Like Donkey Kong” – Jessica Kinni, from the appalling and enjoyable Rock of Love II UPDATE: Please note, she did not originate this phrase. Thanks Jukebox!
• 11-Dec-2007
  Quote of the Day “put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry” cite

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