“Dogma lives loudly in you.” – Senator Dianne Feinstein, to a (Christian) judicial candidate EVEN PEOPLE IN LALA LAND CAN SEE that it’s gone loony. Harvey Weinstein wasn’t the only snake out there. By the way, snakes and the apple got a bad rap in Paradise (my family raised apples). Something was lost in the […]
“All the sportswriters were mad at me that night because they wanted to get to Hank after the game and I closed the clubhouse to everyone but the team and families . . . I stood on a table and said what I thought about Hank, which was that he was the best ballplayer I […]
Around every bend he confronted bigotry – and he did so with amazing grace, endearing dignity, and old-school wisdom.” – Douglas Brinkley, on “I Had a Hammer” I’M READING The Hank Aaron story, another of my one dollar purchases from a local library. I could do a book review every week if I had more […]
His horse went dead and his mule went lame, And he lost 6 cows in a poker game. Then a hurricane came on a summer’s day And blew the house where he lived away. An earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house stood on And then the tax collector came […]
“I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.” – Patrick Henry “JUST AN ACTOR.” That’s what they called President Reagan. But he didn’t just collect wisdom; he cultivated it. Not long before his birth’s centennial, the Reagan Library found a box containing […]
“Sometimes I think the world is going crazy. The rest of the time I KNOW it.” – BT magazine CHOOSING THE BEST NIHILIST QUOTATIONS OF ALL TIME ISN’T EASY, but here goes nothing: “The era of big government is over.” — Wm. Jefferson Blythe Clinton “No more deficits; no more debt.” — Nancy Pelosi (2006?) […]
“Heterosexuality just isn’t working.” – NBC news “THE ASSAULT ON THE SEXES” by Jim and Andrea Fordham was published in 1977 and I’m just getting around to reading it. It was prophetic. An excerpt: “Feminist writer Gabrielle Burton says that women’s lib is seeking the most radical revolution of all, because ‘it is challenging the […]
“Laughter is better than complaining.” – paraphrasing a paraphrase of “Anger is better than laughter,” which in the King James Version is “Sorrow is better than laughter” (last week’s column) SOMETHING LOST IN THE TRANSLATION? Not to repeat myself, but the English words anger and sorrow meant the same thing in pre-KJV times. The root […]
“Laughter is better than complaining.” – paraphrasing a paraphrase of “Anger is better than laughter,” which in the King James Version is “Sorrow is better than laughter” (last week’s column) SOMETHING LOST IN THE TRANSLATION? Not to repeat myself, but the English words anger and sorrow meant the same thing in pre-KJV times. The root […]
“I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of insidious forces working from within.” – General Douglas MacArthur “While [America] retains its sound and healthful state, everything will be safe . . It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, […]