Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Lessons

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    I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.  Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.Elie Wiesel

  • Improved wiper blades – Must have

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    I got a new set of wiper blades.  I think they might be too big because they hang over the edges a little, but I don’t care; They work great, and I would have to say that they are the only blades I have ever had that I actually like to watch working.Call me crazy,…

  • Discovering Truth

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    What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?Henry Miller

  • Bush Bumper Stickers

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    1/20/09: End of an ErrorThat’s OK, I Wasn’t Using My Civil Liberties AnywayLet’s Fix Democracy in This Country FirstIf You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to IranBush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.If You Can Read This, You’re Not Our PresidentOf Course It Hurts: You’re Getting Screwed by an ElephantHey, Bush Supporters: Embarrassed Yet?George…

  • Brilliant Ploy

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    Two days ago, Apple Inc. Chair, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco.  Today, the web is abuzz with news that Cisco Systems, Inc. is suing Apple because it owns the iPhone trademark.By ignoring that fact and calling the new OS X phone by that name, he has firmly implanted that name…

  • Intelligence

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    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

  • Statistically Speaking

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    I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her.This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out is window and gave the woman the finger.“Man, that guy is…