From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-14:"I have been born again. I have been through a psychiatric experience which has completely changed me....The moment when your conscious meets your subconscious is a hell of a wrench." -- Cary Grant, actor, on ( Read more... )

I have a clutter problem, partly from having too many activities with associated stuff that I want to have all "on top" at once for easy access when I switch gears, partly from just running out of spoons before I accomplish enough any straightening-up, and partly because I say too often, "but I might need this later".

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"I confidently trust that the American people will prove ( Read more... )

"Authority under law must, I know, be respected as the foundation of society and as the protection of peace. The extension of state power, however, into every phase of man's life and thought is the abuse of authority, the destroyer of freedom, and the enemy of real peace." -- Lester Bowles Pearson (b. 1897-04-23, d. 1972-12-27), 14thPrime ( Read more... )

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-06: "The U.K. is a European Quebec, and France is like Ontario in Canada. It is quite an irony, isn't it?" -- John Erik Fossum, a political theorist at the Centre for European Studies in Oslo. Quoted in "Europe's suddenly a lot like Canada", The Globe and Mail, 31 May, 2005.
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This just arrived in my mailbox via the Clan MacAthair[*] mailing list. ("Louie, Louie" is the official MacAthair clan song, which I didn't ( Read more... )

Χριστος Ανεστη! (Christ is risen!) Happy Easter!

"Christianity is not like an ice cream sundae that you can choose ( Read more... )

"I like to think the linguistic accident that made 'God's Friday' into 'Good Friday' was no accident at all. It was God's own doing -- a sharp, prophetic jab at a time and a culture obsessed by happiness." -- Chris Armstrong, "The Goodness of Good Friday", Christianity Today, 2003-04-18

( second half of the paragraph, for folks wanting a little more context and not put off by a wee bit of preachiness... )

Argh! I can't believe I let myself get so caught up in car stuff (tearing various rooms apart looking for the title to send to the insurance company so they can pay me) and computer stuff (the aforementioned cat-on-the-F1-key matter) that I forgot to wish everyone a happy Cheese Weasel Day!

I hope the Cheese Weasel brought, to those of you who ( Read more... )

This week's mail included the City of Baltimore 2007 Department ( Read more... )