A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A: absolutely nothing

Q: what caused a week-long lack of posts here?

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

A: a pinched wire

Q: what caused a week-long internet outage at my house?

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A: Yellow Journalism!

Q: What's black and white and not red anymore?

There are those who say that a line of decency has been crossed by Newsweek and Tina Brown's portrayal of Michelle Bachmann, and there are those who say that the sky is made of tangerine gumdrops. I say to both sides today that turnabout is fair play.

Saturday, August 06, 2011

he wasn't talking politics...

...but this sure applies (unfortunately):
A gift, at some level, makes you feel indebted to the givers. Some resent the debt. Then they denigrate the giver. Then they tell themselves it was never a gift at all, but something they were owed.

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

a series of jokes: 11

Two fish are sitting in a tank, and one turns to the other and says, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

Monday, August 01, 2011

a series of jokes: 10

Q: What's green and looks like an iguana?
A: A blue bucket in disguise