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My work is a game, a very serious game.

Maurits Cornelis "M.C." Escher

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To love and be loved is to

feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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I refuse to have a battle of wits

with an unarmed person.

Walter Crawford "Walt" Kelly, Jr.

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided

I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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Mission Viejo

Wow! Check out the Mission Viejo Nadadores site here.

Quote of the Day

The really frightening thing about middle

age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff

(a.k.a. Doris Day)

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A competent and self-confident person is

incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy

is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

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Never part without loving words to think

of during your absence. It may be that

you will not meet again in life.

Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

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The backbone of surprise is

fusing speed with secrecy.

Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz

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He that respects himself is safe from others.

He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Herny Wadsworth Longfellow

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We don't know what we want, but we

are ready to bite somebody to get it.

William Penn Adiar "Will" Rogers

For those of you keeping track...

...we've got a 1966 Chevrolet BelAir, a 1979 Pontiac TransAm, and a 1973 Plymouth Duster.

You know what we've been missing, right?

No, it's not an El Camino* - it's a 1986 GMC Caballero.

They didn't make many of those babies. Ain't she a beauty?!?!

*Sad to say, I parted with my 1973 El Camino back in 1986...

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Quote of the Day

Why do we have to wait for special moments to

say nice things or tell people we care about them?

Randal Keith "RK" Milholland

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I've never quite believed

that one chance is all I get.

Anne Tyler

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who

doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.

Quote of the Day

Books have the same enemies as people:

fire, humidity, animals, weather,

and their own content.

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

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We cannot control the evil tongues of others;

but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Marcus Porcius Cato (a.k.a. Cato the Elder)

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Farming looks mighty easy when your

plow is a pencil, and you're a

thousand miles from a corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fer the Kinfolk

Hannah (#3 on the way), Daniel, Bobby, Leon, Max

Quote of the Day

Nothing astonishes men so much as

common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Blast from the Past: Brian Goodell

Yeah, I got me one of them there Speedo Olympic Banner suits that year. Didn't everyone?

Brian Goodell talks about his experience as part of one of the greatest - if not the greatest - US Olympic swimming teams:

Brian Goodell and TPI from Roberto on Vimeo.

Thanks, Fairness in Sports Foundation!

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

William Somerset Maugham

Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts!

Who do the radical feminists love to hate?

Wrong!! Why would you say it's me? Guess again.

That's right, Christina Hoff Sommers! She wrote The War Against Boys back in 2000.

Sommers, you see, doesn't buy into the crazy numbers the feminists love to throw around. Read more here.

"The history of women's abuse began over 2,700 years ago in the year 753 BC. It was during the reign of Romulus of Rome that wife abuse was accepted and condoned under the Laws of Chastisement. ... The laws permitted a man to beat his wife with a rod or switch so long as its circumference was no greater than the girth of the base of the man's right thumb. The law became commonly know as 'The Rule of Thumb.' These laws established a tradition which was perpetuated in English Common Law in most of Europe."

Where to begin? How about with the fact that Romulus of Rome never existed. He is a figure in Roman mythology — the son of Mars, nursed by a wolf. Problem 2: The phrase "rule of thumb" did not originate with any law about wife beating, nor has anyone ever been able to locate any such law. It is now widely regarded as a myth, even among feminist professors.

Sounds like a job for Jamie and Adam, right after they bust the "two heads are better than one" myth.

Zorza also informs readers that "between 20 and 35 percent of women seeking medical care in emergency rooms in America are there because of domestic violence." Studies by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, indicate that the figure is closer to 1 percent.

Hey, what's 34% error between friends?

"Thug," "parasite," "dangerous," a "female impersonator" — those are some of the labels applied to me when I exposed specious feminist statistics in my 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? (Come to think of it, none of my critics contacted me directly with their concerns before launching their public attacks.) According to Susan Friedman, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Sommers' diachronic discourse is easily unveiled as synchronic discourse in drag. ... She practices ... metonymic historiography." That one hurt! But my views, as well as my metonymic historiography, are always open to correction. So I'll continue to follow the work of the academic feminists — to criticize it when it is wrong, and to learn from it when it is right.

Maybe she'll take a look at the nutty numbers the WSF routinely toss out as "facts".

Look for The Science on Women and Science (edited by Sommers) soon.

Quote of the Day (thanks MS)

He who loses wealth loses much;

he who loses a friend loses more; but

he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

Quote of the Day

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good

beginning and a good ending, then having

the two as close together as possible.

Nathan Birnbaum (a.k.a. George Burns)

The Next Project

1979 Pontiac Trans Am

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest

profession. I have come to realize that it

bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Quote of the Day

The greater the ignorance

the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Quote of the Day

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

Quote of the Day

A countryman between two lawyers

is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

Everything that is really great and
inspiring is created by the individual
who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till

you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth Really is Stranger than Fiction!

Remember the three families that threatened a Title IX lawsuit that forced NYC to move the girls' high school soccer season from spring to fall?

Of course you do!! I just won't let it die, will I?!?!

Got no Earth-Lee idear what's goin' on? Git yer danged self catch'd up here'n here.

Now for the clincher:

It's likely that none of the three girls will play this fall!

Read more here.

"One is injured," Sprance continued, "one team may not be able to play in the fall, they're not going to be able to have enough players; and the third team is where the girl was dropped in the middle of the year."

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I don't want any yes-men around me.

I want everybody to tell me the truth,

even if it costs them their jobs.

Schmuel Gelbfisz (a.k.a. Samuel Goldwyn)

Quote of the Day

To live a creative life, we must

lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce