Quotation of the day for March 29, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 29, 2016 "It would hardly be helpful to describe symptoms without acknowledging the human origins of the ecological crisis. A certain way of understanding human life and activity has gone awry, to the serious detriment of the world around us. Should we not pause and consider this?" - Pope Francis, from his 2015 Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si'. [http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 28, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2016 "An adequate religion is always an ultimate optimism which has entertained all the facts which lead to pessimism." - Reinhold Niebuhr Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 27, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 27, 2016 "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H. L. Mencken Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 26, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 26, 2016 "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman, presidential domestic-policy adviser and Watergate co-conspirator, on the invention of the War on Drugs. Quoted by Dan Baum. [https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 25, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 25, 2016 "Critics and scholars are evangelists, plucking the public by the sleeve, saying "Look at this," or "Listen to this," or "See how this works."" - Helen Vendler [http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/helen-vendler-lecture] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 24, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 24, 2016 "Data is the exhaust of the Information Age." - Bruce Schneier, in his book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 23, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 19, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 19, 2016 "You can only win at Russian roulette for so long." - Jochen Neerpasch, on why he retired from sports car racing in the 1960s. [http://jalopnik.com/the-unlikely-story-of-how-this-ford-gave-birth-to-bmw-m-1756927547] Submitted by: Dana Weeks Mar. 16, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 18, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 18, 2016 "I'm speaking with myself ... I have a very good brain." - Donald Trump, on being asked whom he is talking to on foreign policy. [http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/im-speaking-with-myself-i-have-a-very-good-brain-trump-reveals-hes-his-own-foreign-policy-advisor] Submitted by: Dana Weeks Mar. 17, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 16, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 16, 2016 "It occurred to me that everything we buy has been poked or packaged by some unfortunate nitwit with a hairnet and a wad of cotton stuffed into his ears. Every ear of corn, every chocolate-coated raisin or shoelace. Every barbeque tong, paper hat, and store-bought mitten arrives with a history of abject misery. Vegetarians look at a pork roast thinking about the animal. I'd now look at them wondering whose job it was to package the shallow Styrofoam trays. That's where the real tragedy lies. Cigarettes, crackers, gum: everything I saw would now be tainted by the reminder of my job." - David Sedaris, from his book Naked. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 15, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 14, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 14, 2016 "If you look for a ghostwriting credit on the cover or inside jacket of her novels, you won't find it. Only when you get to the fine print is there an acknowledgement that copyright is jointly owned by Katie Price and Rebecca Farnworth. [Price] says she is closely involved in her novels. "I talk in a tape and say the stories that I want. Rebecca then writes each chapter. It comes back, and I read it through." [Price's manager Claire] Powell clarifies. "Then Kate re-sits down with it and says, I want it to be this or that, or more powerful, and they just write it into book words." - Simon Hattenstone, interviewing celebrity author Katie Price on how she "writes" her novels. [http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/mar/22/healthandwellbeing] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 11, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 13, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 13, 2016 "Hitchens has the life that a spirited thirteen-year-old boy might hope adulthood to be: he wakes up when he likes, works from home, is married to someone who wears leopard-skin high heels, and conducts heady, serious discussions late into the night." - Ian Parker, describing journalist Christopher Hitchens. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2] Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 10, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 12, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 12, 2016 "When people say I am too serious, I take it as a compliment. I have always understood politics as a serious endeavor, involving the fates of nations, ideals and human beings who cannot afford to be pawns in a game. I suppose this understanding makes me an outsider in contemporary American politics." - Bernie Sanders, U.S. politician and Presidential hopeful, in the preface to "Outsider in the White House", a revised version of his memoir "Outsider in the House". Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 11, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 11, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 11, 2016 "He once said the thing which I would normally say to any poet--that if you really want your poem to work, the usage of adjectives should be minimal; but you should stuff it as much as you can with nouns--even the verbs should suffer. If you cast over a poem a certain magic veil that removes adjectives and verbs, when you remove the veil the paper still should be dark with nouns." - Joseph Brodsky, poet. [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3184/the-art-of-poetry-no-28-joseph-brodsky] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 10, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 4, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 4, 2016 "Your country is on fire and your leaders are whittling sticks for their marshmallows. Right now, Congress is debating whether guns have the right to marry other guns." - Brian Calvert and Chris Cannon, comedians. They are founders of the Canada Party, which seeks to run the entire country for U.S. President. [http://www.americabutbetter.com] Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 3, 2016

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Quotation of the day for March 3, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for March 3, 2016 "Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer. He thinks nothing of saying the most hurtful thing about someone else, but when he hears a whisper that runs counter to his own vainglorious self-image, he coils like a caged ferret. Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in the pages of Spy magazine. That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him--generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby. The most recent offering arrived earlier this year, before his decision to go after the Republican presidential nomination. Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: "See, not so short!" I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, "Actually, quite short." Which I can only assume gave him fits." - Graydon Carter, on demagogue and businessman Donald Trump. [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/graydon-carter-donald-trump] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 29, 2016

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