Author Archives

Unknown's avatar
  • Television

    I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor. This seemed appropriate as I just got rid of my television yesterday.

  • Simpletons

    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

    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

    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 ›