Adages
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Quote of the day – yet another Williamson
From this blog post
What do the progressives want the authorities to do? Build a prison cell inside his prison cell and another one inside of that to create a turducken of felonious intent?
Turducken of felonious intent is one of the greatest word sequences ever.
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Great tough guy line – Finnish version
From this video by Indy Neidel – here is a saying started by the Finns in the Finnish – Soviet War of 1939
They are so many, and our county so small
Where shall we find room to bury them all?
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Greatest danger sign this year
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Tyler Cowen channels me on Tom Lehrer
I’m just coming off of my latest obsession – and here is Tyler Cowen’s post on the topic.
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Quote from Tom Lehrer
(Discussing his sort of retirement from music, written from memory)
I’ve always lived by the principle that if you’ve seen Cincinnati you don’t need to see Cleveland
Meaning that if something is no longer fun, then stop.
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Quote of the day – yet another Eric Hoffer
There are crumbs of everything inside us – all you have to do is be antiquated with yourself and you will know the whole world.
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Morning Williamson on Puritanism
That was the basic cultural theory of America: that our Anglo-Protestant forebears were so deep-dipped in the Protestant work ethic — and so constantly mindful that they might be called before their Maker at any moment to make an accounting of their lives — that they didn’t need a king bossing them around. They bossed themselves around, like enlightened people do — that’s classical liberalism in a nutshell.
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Quote of the day – Thursday edition
From the Great War on YouTube
Peace is within sight, but not within reach
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Quote of the day
From Tom Lehrer
Like many contemporary philosophers he enjoyed giving advice to people happier than he was
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Quotes of the day
From the same song by Dan Bern
This song was made by algorithms for you and your peers – please like it – it’s called the future is here
and (somewhere in the song, refering to global warming)
Isn’t it ironic that we’re going to be killed by dinosaurs after all