Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Dangerous Offspring

    Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.  When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.Bill Moyers, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 30 Jan 2005

  • Cautiousness

    Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

  • Down on the farm

    Amy, a blonde city girl, marries a farmer.  One morning, before he goes out to the fields, the farmer says to her, “The Artificial Insemination man is coming to impregnate one of our cows today.  I drove a nail into the two-by-four above the cow’s stall.  You show him where it is, okay?”So the farmer…

  • Love

    Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.Robert G. Ingersoll

  • Can you be a professional?

    The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional.  Scroll down for each answer.  The questions are not that difficult.  But don’t scroll down until you have answered the question!How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator,…

  • Let’s hear it for the First Amendment!

    36% Proportion of high school students who say newspapers should get government approval before printing a story.74% Proportion who say people should not be allowed to burn or deface an American flag as a political statement.Time, 14 February 2005

  • Promotion

    Yesterday it was publicly announced that I had accepted a promotion to Vice President, Information Technology.  I guess my fortune cookie was right.