Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Deer Ticks

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    I just hate people who forward too many warnings as much as anyone, but this one is important!  Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list!  If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around to…

  • Getting Ugly in Mass-a-two-shits

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    Who owns the air? by ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn — I can easily imagine private apartment complexes and commercial structures using such language to keep WiFi out, then selling the “right” to “sell” such service to someone else.Unless the FCC steps in and corrects this kind of abuse pretty soon, there will be lots of unhappy…

  • Compensation

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    It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without also helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • A War by Any Other Name

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    Four and a half weeks after I posted Bush declares “Win” in “Drug War”, in the 8 August 2005 issue of Time Magazine, they posted the following:The U.S. has a long history of fighting wars on nouns.  In the 1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime.  Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. …

  • Caution

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    Geese lower their heads when flying under a bridge, no matter how high its arches may be.Julius Caesar Scaliger

  • Meet the World

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    For additional startling comparisons see Meet the World.

  • Pretension

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    Never seem more learned than the people you are with.  Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden.  Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield