Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Reality vs. Cinema in the Bush White House

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    The following piece appeared in The Onion issue 4108, 23 February 2005.  This publication, which has been appearing in local Twin Cities establishments lately used to be available only online.  Thanks Onion for brightening our days.  Whenever I say the following headline to my 16-year-old, he still cracks up.  Especially since this week, they ran…

  • Are you busy?

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    Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters

  • Porn police

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    One of the things that I am responsible for at the office is reviewing the email that my filtering vendor MessageLabs identifies as possible porn.  This one came in on 15 February.  Looks like a good hit to me.  Ah, to live if California…

  • Perfection

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    Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence doing your best.Sir Lawrence Olivier

  • What shall I wear?

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    via email from Duane McDowell, Fri Feb 18 2005, 13:21 -0600

  • War movies

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    For some reason, we have been watching very many World War II movies at my house lately; From Here to Eternity, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, and U-571 in the last two weeks alone.  And it occured to me that I don’t recall ever seeing a moving from the German point-of-view related to the greatest…

  • Knowledge

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    It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.  Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954)