Dr Wingnut

Month: February 2008

  • Waste time

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    Funny Cat Pictures and Crazy Cat VideosOooh, I wanna make weekend plans…Baby’s evil eyeStudio photos from the ’70s and ’80sPaper airplane flies above ManhattanTony-b, a fun virtual DJ machineBeatles-tribute singing Led Zep’s “Stairway”Backwards singingCalendar with headshotsPaul Rand on designThe FrogfatherA good thought for the dayOne crazy bike trailMap of “last places” on earthBalrog mathCyril has…

  • Reputation

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    You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.Henry Ford

  • The politics of fear and political hysteria

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    The history in this county to me, is that the counter subversives, starting with the alien and sedition acts — way back in — after the revolutionary war, they always do more damage than the subversives they’re out to counter; and that’s the lesson that we ought to take from it.Victor Navasky, author of “Naming…

  • Steadfast

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    I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.William Lloyd Garrison

  • Not your father’s campaign ad

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    Yesterday, my friend Adam sent me this link to Barack Obama’s Yes We Can speech.  And today, in the paper the headline from the article on Hillary’s trip to Minnesota over the weekend said, “Clinton asks youth to share her vision.”  I don’t think she gets it…  People don’t need to get “her vision,” she…

  • A runner’s creed

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    A runner’s creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.Ken Doherty

  • Code monkeys throwing their turds around

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    There never has been, nor will there ever be, any language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.Donald Knuth