The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. –Bertrand Russell While trying to come up with something to write about today, I visited a quote site where I found the quote above. The first thing that popped into my mind was that of religion. Wars [...]
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. –Russell Baker Perhaps this is the real reason why some people stubbornly oppose same sex marriage. No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that [...]
Harry Truman on Health Care Reform
Posted in People, Politics, history, opinion, quotes on Aug 20th, 2009
President Harry Truman was among the first Americans who saw a need for health care reform. Decades ahead of his time, he was unable to make meaningful changes during his tenure as president in the late 40s and early 50s, but he’s acknowledged by some as the inspiration for the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid [...]
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. —David Brinkley TV “news” now typically spends at least ten minutes covering the results of American Idol. It makes me wonder if there wasn’t any real news [...]
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell ! –Unknown I’ve never believed in the concept of some people going to any sort of hell after they die. I’ve always maintained that if there’s a hell, it’s right here on Earth. I’m not sure there’s an afterlife. I’d like to think that there is, as I [...]
“The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own [...]
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King “Normal” people don’t change the world. People who are normal are complacent; they are unmotivated to devise new ways of doing things or finding new things to do. “That’s the way we’ve always done it” is their mantra, with includes the implication, [...]
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