qotd, for the political bloggers
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird’s intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an “author,” there results a very fair and accurate transcript of … Continue reading qotd
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DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe … Continue reading qotd
qotd, braindead division
30 November 2003“Can someone tell me how to get to the city?” “They said this was a shuttle to Berkeley. Isn’t this shuttle going to Berkeley?” “Yes. Yes. Can someone tell me how to get to Berkeley?” –An airport shuttle driver, and a passenger, on a shuttle to a city (which was supposed to be … Continue reading qotd, braindead division
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