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• Simpletons

  By aaforringer on December 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Only simpletons go to fortune-tellers. Who else would be in such a hurry to hear bad news? Issac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain And here he is a younger Issac, minus the mutton chops.

• Vow- Speech

  By aaforringer on December 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  From IMDB: We Were Soldiers In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a football field-sized clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore and 400 young troopers from the elite newly formed American… Read More ›

• Censorship

  By aaforringer on December 12, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Only a person schooled deeply in law and being a lawyer could say something like this… Read More ›

• Observation

  By aaforringer on December 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  It was probably not a suicide, since that form of death was not generally a team sport. From Tom Clancy’s book, The Bear and the Dragon, A deduction by Russian detectives on the discovery that a body found in a… Read More ›