Dr Wingnut

Year: 2008

  • Delegation

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    There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.Will Rogers

  • Failure

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    Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying.  Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t.  Failure is part of what makes us human.Amber Deckers

  • Longing

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    Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Democracy and Money

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    When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P. J. O’Rourke

  • Old Age, I decided, is a gift.

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    I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be.  Oh, not my body!  I sometime s despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt.  And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who…

  • Eight years ago

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    You might remember when this accident happened… March 5, 2000.  Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 from Vegas overshot the runway at Burbank .  The plane crashed through the airport fence, careened across the street and ended up with a collapsed landing gear, right next to a gas station.  But that’s not the amazing part — Look…

  • Got Kleenex?

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    A couple of weeks ago, I went to the server room to find our network support guy, Gerhard, to talk about upgrading our SharePoint 2003 servers to MOSS 2007 and I found the following jury-rigged tissue dispenser.  I guess it’s better than having a box on the desk covered with binders and cables that hides…