Author: Dr Wingnut

  • How to get a free magazine…

    I inadvertently overpaid my bill from Time Magazine, and got this nice postcard in the mail from them…Maybe I should do something like the Lazlo Letters, but pay all my bills over by $.10 and see what happens.

  • That’s the definition dumbass

    Tigers’ Cabrera quits drinkingDetroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera wanted to clear a few things up after the ugly incident last fall, right before his team surrendered the American League Central Division title to the Twins.First, he’s done drinking alcohol.  And he’s not an alcoholic.“You guys write in the paper ‘alcoholic,’ that’s not right,” the Detroit…

  • Thoughts

    Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit – and man is his mown garden.John Leonard

  • We’re the best…

    …in the world at being second and third — if the just completed Winter Olympics are any indication of our ability to compete.Makes you wonder what we could do if we had universal health care and took care of all our citizens, like they do in the rest of the first world.  I wonder what…

  • Perfect Virtue

    To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius

  • Respite

    Every now and then go away — for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.Leonardo DaVinci

  • Mind thy tongue

    We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.Cato The Elder