April 2010


Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith

This quote was the lead to Lewis H. Lapham’s editorial in the May issue of Harper’s on how we are inconsistent in punishing our public figures.  We vilify Tiger Woods for his sexual indiscretions, but fail to prosecute George Bush for his criminal invasion of Iraq.

People who make the biggest mistakes are often the holiest.

Mary Kassan

As you may or may not know, a new HTML standard is being worked on which adds some very nice features to the web-o-sphere.  Take a look at this HTML5 Presentationfor some of the wondrous things it will support.

The serotonin theory of depression is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity.  Both have been depletion theories, both have survived in spite of the evidence, both contain an implicit message as to what people ought to do. In the case of these myths, the key question is whose interests are being served by a widespread promulgation of such views rather than how do we test this theory.

David Healy, North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine in Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading, say researchers, Medical News today, 12-Nov-2005

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

John R. Amos

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