Your Quote of the Day

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

It does something much worse, Tom, something that most find much more troubling; it calls into question folks' sanity.

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
Florynce R. Kennedy

if men could get pregnant, wouldn't they be called women? Good Humor though.

"How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet?”
~ George Carlin.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

“One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

"Im really a terrible drinker.
One or two drinks at the most.
Three drinks and Im under the table,
and four Im under the host."

Dorothy Parker

"If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey

The "ever" is redundant Andrei. Wasted words and all that.

“I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was a spontaneous combustion.”

Dottie Parker.

Don't blame me. That's what she said. (Or, has been quoted as having said.)

Well--Oprah does gush a bit I have heard.

Do you know the wasted word lesson in It's Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding.

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

It isn't redundant, it's emphatic.

What of "and all that"? Stop being a boob, Spendi.

In re: 'and all that'. I assumed that Spendi was being his ironic self.

That's certainly a possibility, Merry.

If so, mea culpa.

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

I can't help it. It's innate. Setanta said so and you know what an intelligent and even-handed person he is.

In the introduction to Absentee Ownership Thorstein Veblen wrote, in 1922, --



And Mr Veblen could hardly be expected to envisage just how unexampled the rate at which the facts are changing now and thus how unexampled is the interval between the language and the principles and the facts.

"Lag, leak and friction" was a slogan he gave to the notion. The friction is to be seen on the TV and especially today.

A Constitution written by the mercantile classes of the late 18th century, after a great deal of wrangling, being applied to a 21st century industrial society is bound to end in a muddle. The only reason the muddle is not so obvious is that the industrial arts have kept pace with its disadvantages, and more, and the scientists, technicians and mechanics of the industrial arts are hardly represented in Congress or the White House.

The modern industrial arts could easily house, feed, clothe and keep warm the whole population if it wasn't for the need of absentee owners to reduce the supply of the necessaries in order to keep the price up and the dividends flowing so that the kept classes can continue in the manner to which they have become accustomed.

And when credit is the engine keeping the show on the road you might reasonably expect trouble at some point.