Your Quote of the Day

No ed. I just want to know what Mr Dodds saw that I didn't in order to improve my education. It's not a lot to ask seeing as you declared that he had seen something I hadn't.

Get on with an answer will you please or admit you haven't one.

In the novel, Dobbs is penniless, in Mexico. He has asked everywhere he can for work, but nobody wants or needs him. So, if he is advised that anybody can find work, he considers that the man with such advice is speaking out his ass. This all occurs before the contractor hires him to work on a rig, when all is despair. He is homeless and at a point where he has been reduced to begging on the street, just to eat. How can you challenge the quote, in this context? I may not understand what you are asking for.

I think Edgar is implying that you are criminally gullible if you believe that conservative rhetoric.

I suppose Anyone could find a job, if by job you mean a minimum wage (if not below minimum wage) job where the employer forces his workers to work overtime hours (without the overtime pay) and in many cases the employee doesn't get paid for weeks at a time. Where possibly if the employees work for tips, the management takes most if not all the tips then turns around and charges the employee a weekly uniform cleaning expense, etc....

If you mean a job where ones employer openly ignores labor laws and where whistleblowers lose their jobs in less then a heartbeat with no or very little consequences to the employer.

And that there are predators out there who will go to the chronically underemployed and unemployed promising guaranteed jobs for a fee and never does a job actually turn up. Throw in private for-profit schools into that sometimes illicit and often highly unethical lot of exploitative bottom feederes.

If these are the type of jobs you mean then I assume Edgar will apologize for the error of his cynicism.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
~ Fran Lebowitz, Tips for Teens

“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
― Muhammad Ali

“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
― Muhammad Ali

I'm sorry tsar--I didn't realise that Dobbs was a fictional character. A literary conceit. He hadn't been in Mexico at all. Nor broke and begging in the street.

It seems, in real life, that Ms Dialek wasn't all that serious about wanting a well paid job in Mr Cain's organisation. But now she's found another job as the trembling little victim of male lust.

One advantage of being the worst person in company is that one always the beneficiary of the goodness and virtue of the others.

Swift possibly.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Word pictures sometimes interest me. Here's one that struck me in a book I'm reading, a thought by Inspector John Rebus in Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin:

"Slack skin covered his face, looking for somewhere else to go."

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
~ Lenny Bruce.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The American Democrat

Ezra Dyer, dyer consequences column, Automobile Magazine, Dec. 2011.

"We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
~ Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too
quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have
an explanation for.”

~Malcolm Gladwell
Blink

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any
difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe
and developing the habit of believing.

~Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Good one, BBB.

He lives to learn in life's hard school,
How few who pass above him,
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her, because they love him

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clocks slay time...time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner