"The preservation of liberty depends on the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved....
Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.... ( Read more... )

"The Day After Tomorrow" is rated PG-13. Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes drugs.

From the New York Times movie review, May 2004

While cleaning up I found the brochure, "Tofu: The Miracle Food of the 90s," tucked into a cookbook. And here's an excerpt:

Soybeans are used in an amazing array of products, from pancakes to particle boards and lecithin to linoleum. And of course tofu: the miracle food of the 90s. -- Ontario Soybean Growers’ Marketing Board ( Read more... )

"In the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

--- Abraham Lincoln

... And, of course, he couldn't know that his life would be such a poignant and inspiring illustration of same.

And, yes -- thanks for the queries -- hopefully soon, I'll make the time for a life-of-me update!

"Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph."

-- Gustave Flaubert --