Thought For The Day

Don’t make life harder than it already is for people, and maybe just maybe do something to make it easier for people every once in a while.

-Me, in an e-mail conversation earlier this week with a friend.

Glenn Reynolds channels Warren Zevon

IN WALKS THE VILLAGE IDIOT, AND HIS FACE IS ALL AGLOW. He’s been up all night listening to Mohammed’s radio.[*1]
I HEARD THE GENERAL, WHISPERING TO HIS AIDE DE CAMP: “Be watchful for Mohammed’s lamp.”[*2]
EVERYBODY’S DESPERATE, TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. Work all day, still can’t pay the price of gasoline and meat.[*3]
YOU’VE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT, JUST LISTENING FOR HIS DRUM: Hoping that the righteous might just, might just, might just, might just come.[*4]

The way things are going, the Sage of Knoxville will have more of this . . .

Thought For The Day

If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.

Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress.

They are reactionary.

Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary founders.

— Calvin Coolidge, 1926 (As quoted on page 18-19 of America by Heart by Sarah Palin)
(Re-formatting to a more bloggish format is mine)

Thought For The Day