David Brooks:

"We’re going to have two extraordinary nominees for president this year. This could be one of the great general election campaigns in American history. The only thing that could ruin it is if the candidates become demagogues and hurl accusations at each other that are an insult to reality and common sense."

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Suggested mottos for Great Britain:

“Once Mighty Empire, Slightly Used”

“At Least We’re Not French”

“No Motto Please, We’re British.”

“Questions and answers ought to be short.” (The House of Lords)

Scotland's motto “Nemo me impune lacessit,” mistranslated to “Do not sit on a thistle.”

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Need to find a doctor. What I learned instead:

There's a Hyannis, Nebraska.

And if you google the phrase Cape Cod doctors, you hear how they "ain't got no pills, they give their patients codfish gills".

Very helpful.

"The Bush tax breaks gave the richest 10% of Americans a gift of $148 billion. That is twice as miuch as the government will spend on job training, Pell Grants for college students, public housing, low-income rental subsidies, child care, health insurance for low-income kids, low-income energy assistance, meals for shut-ins, and federal ( Read more... )

I love it.

I stumbled into the kitchen, to fix myself a cup of tea, and looked out of the window over the sink...to see the ground covered with white.

Yeah for unexpected (at least for those who don't pay too much attention) snow!

@#$%^&* hung up on me! I heard a click and they were gone! *%$%^

I hate anything that deals with paperwork ( Read more... )

My new favorite web comic:

http://www.wetherobots.com/

Well, Toto is almost cleared out and I have moved in. That's right, a new residence, back on Cape (that's Massachusetts, for y'all in the west).

And I'm tired, so that's all I'm gonna say now.