Quote of the Day

I thought I would share this paragraph with you: “They tramped through a land as exotic as North Africa, a land of village witches and exorcists, where the sick swallowed powdered amber or drank the dust of St. Peter’s bones. Big-wheeled carts clattered on iron rims over the cobblestones; the scenes painted on their sides…

WWII Gen. Terry de la Mesa Allen on military strategy: “Tactics are nine tenths audacity.”

I do not pretend to have consistent, easily categorized political views.  That’s why I call myself a “flaming moderate.”  But one attitude I hold pretty consistently is suspicion of concentrated power—in government, in industry, and especially in government and industry!  That’s why I felt a kindred spirit in Teddy Roosevelt, as quoted in Morris’s amazing…

Here’s the opening paragraph from a New York Times magazine article published in May of this year, about monk seals. What a great way to open the piece: The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and selfish, or…

Whether you believe in God or not, belong to a specific faith or not, it is hard to deny the logic of the following statement: “All those religions. They can’t all be right.  But they can all be wrong.” – Anonymous member of utopian Zoar community, on her deathbed. (Click here to view comments)