Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!

Jonathan Harshman Winters III

Quote of the Day

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed

there are many rewards, if you disgrace

yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Quote of the Day

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth

it to gnaw through the leather straps.

Emo Phillips

Quote of the Day

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept

anything but the best, you very often get it.

William Somerset Maugham

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

I would not waste my life in friction when

it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard

Pretty Cool

This slide show was shot at the Vine Valley farm my dad grew up on. My cousin, Leon, now runs the farm.

Sunflowers

Quote of the Day

You have not converted a man

because you have silenced him.

John Morley

1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Quote of the Day

The function of socialism is to

raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Kingsley Mailer

6'6" Bull Shark

Last weekend's catch:

Quote of the Day

It is hard to fight an enemy who

has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

Quote of the Day

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared

to give up every preconceived notion...

or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself

into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket

and trying to lift himself up by the handle.



Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Quote of the Day

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,

we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Alva Edison

Fight! Fight!! Fight!!!

The radical feminists detest Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. She brings facts to the table and it drives them nuts. Read more here.

Quote of the Day

Middle age is when you've met so many

people that every new person you meet

reminds you of someone else.

Frederic Ogden Nash

Quote of the Day

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and
deprecate agitation, are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground, they want
rain without thunder and lightning.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
(a.k.a. Frederick Douglass)

Quote of the Day

Generosity with strings is not generosity;

it is a deal.

Marya Mannes

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

It has never been my object to record my dreams,

just the determination to realize them.

Emmanuel Radnitzky (a.k.a. Man Ray)

Quote of the Day

The world is a book and those who

do not travel read only one page.

Augustine of Hippo

(a.k.a. St. Augustine)

Uneven Playing Fields

The Washington Post published Uneven Playing Fields, by H. Clay McEldowney, yesterday. Read more here.

Congress made Title IX law more than 37 years ago. A lot has changed for men and women on campus since 1972. Most colleges are worrying about how to attract and retain more male students, not the other way around. The law was meant to ensure fairness for both sexes, and that is not what is happening.

Quote of the Day

What's money? A man is a success if he gets

up in the morning and goes to bed at night

and in between does what he wants to do.

Robert Allen Zimmerman (a.k.a. Bob Dylan)

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Quote of the Day (thanks MS)

If the freedom of speech is taken away

then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Quote of the Day

Don't take life so serious, son,

it ain't nohow permanent.

Walter Crawford "Walt" Kelly, Jr.