Dr Wingnut

Day: September 30, 2007

  • Assured mutual destruction

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    The following blurb was in the table of contents in Time, 1 October, 2007 issue under the item for the cover story, “Who owns the Arctic?”:With ice caps melting, competing nations see not catastrophe but oil-filled billions.How unbelievably greedy do we need to be before we wipe ourselves out, the latest of our systematic extinction…

  • Good advice

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    To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.Will Durant

  • People who’ve lost too many brain cells

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    “They” are still out there — in force…ONERecently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.  I asked for a half dozen nuggets.“We don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said the teenager at the counter.“You don’t?” I replied.“We only have six,…