To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. --Thomas Edison, inventor extraordinaire He's not the first to say that what's good for....More
There's no mistaking the snap of electricity in the air as the Obama-Biden team slips into high gear to ensure one of the quickest--and, I think we....More
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. --Lee Iacocca, It....More
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? --Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968....More
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." --Abraham Lincoln Number 43-- George Walker Bush, that is-- was right about at least one thing during his....More
"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. " --Ronald Reagan Decided after many weeks of brown-bagging to pay a....More
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." --F. Scott Fitzgerald Even if my life depended on it, I couldn't....More
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." --William Crapo "Billy" Durant (1861-1947),....More
The House collectively held its nose on Friday and passed into law--- and the history books-- the beyond gigantic "bailout" or "rescue" bill that is....More
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses And all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again! --Oddly....More
The dire warnings are up that Ike, which is nothing less than a Texas-size hurricane, is now bearing down on Galveston. We hope it wil not be a....More
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."--John Gunther, journalist (1901-70) Though my family and I were not directly affected....More
In World War II slang (which for my money is among the most colorful to have had a lasting impact on the good old flexible English language), a "milk....More
A caption in my last post pointed out that John F. Kennedy viewed reading The New York Times as perhaps more enlightening than poring over government....More