First annual Sportsman of the Year: "The first award happens only once"!
The decision to escalate the attacks by bombing downtown Belgrade "could be associated with increased civilian casualties"!
After two weeks, NATO believed its nonstop barrage was "making life more difficult for the Yugoslavians"!
Clarifying the elements in a gymnastics routine: "Everything comes one after the other"!
Jay Leno, introducing children-inventors: "These are the young people of tomorrow"!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
More "365 Days..."
On September 11, 2001, the Doomsday Clock started ticking--fulfillment not of divine revelation but of human folly.
J'accuse!--god either made it happen or let it happen; god gets no more capital gees from me.
J'accuse!--god either made it happen or let it happen; god gets no more capital gees from me.
The minister responded to the bereaved daughter's anger: "god doesn't give us diseases." Then who gave the dead woman the lethal pathogen and the imperfect immune system that together killed her?
My friend's brand-new grandbaby is in the hospital with meningitis. Now might not be a good time to argue the merits of your all-powerful, loving god.
No self-respecting god would tolerate so many hackneyed, gratuitous apologies offered on his behalf; he would smite the presumptuous apologists.
My friend's brand-new grandbaby is in the hospital with meningitis. Now might not be a good time to argue the merits of your all-powerful, loving god.
No self-respecting god would tolerate so many hackneyed, gratuitous apologies offered on his behalf; he would smite the presumptuous apologists.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Miscellany IV
One may deny one's past; one cannot escape it.
Like it or not, we are, each of us, alone.
When you think things can't possibly get worse, they can; when you think things will never get better, they will.
Count on nothing, rely on no one: strategy for survival or prescription for despair?
When you can't find what you're looking for, look within.
Like it or not, we are, each of us, alone.
When you think things can't possibly get worse, they can; when you think things will never get better, they will.
Count on nothing, rely on no one: strategy for survival or prescription for despair?
When you can't find what you're looking for, look within.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Miscellany III
"You can run, but you can't hide." Oh yes you can--you can hide from everyone but yourself.
You can always "do better"--but only at the risk of losing what you've already got.
A spectator watches; an observer sees.
The pessimist sees the glass half empty, the optimist sees the glass half full; either way, both have only half a glass.
The challenge for most of us is to gracefully accept defeat.
You can always "do better"--but only at the risk of losing what you've already got.
A spectator watches; an observer sees.
The pessimist sees the glass half empty, the optimist sees the glass half full; either way, both have only half a glass.
The challenge for most of us is to gracefully accept defeat.
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