Author Archives: David
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Never in history have so many advocates with so little common sense held so much influence over so selfish a political class who were elected by so gullible a public for such irrelevant reasons. – Roy Spencer, Ph.D.
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Leaking high policy is one thing; fingering a village elder so that he and his family can be beheaded is another. WikiLeak drips blood. – Jerry Pournelle
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. – Richard Feynman
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We are as gods, and might as well get good at it. – The Whole Earth Catalog (1968)
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All attacks on science are ultimately an attack on freedom. All attacks on religion are ultimately an attack on mind. – Robert W. Godwin
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies, credited to “my priest friend Tom”)
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
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It is not more objective to narrate an outrage calmly. – James Chastek
Tyranny of the Mayors
It’s not that I am opposed to government, I am opposed to big, centralized, overwhelming, national government. Give me the Tyranny of the Mayors, I can change mayors faster than Dominos can deliver pizza! – Martin Lee Rose