1997 | Whoops & Squawks

"As for us, we're just seedpods with delusions of grandeur." --The Perfessor, addressing his students in Ross Lockridge Jr.'s novel, Raintree County.

Rules for Living Department

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot (summer) day." --(attributed to) Harry S. Truman. I'll be happy to take credit if Harry doesn't.

Summing Up The Species Department

“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man’s inability to sit still in a room.” --Blaise Pascal (1623-62) , French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

Whatever Else We May Think About The Unabomber, He’s Got Lefties Nailed Department

“Leftists. . .hate America. . .hate Western civilization. . .hate white males. . .hate rationality. . .(they) hate America and the West because they are strong and successful. . .the leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. . .antagonistic to the concept of competition. . .the leftist hates science and rationality. . .the leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. . .Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is inferior it is not his fault, but society’s. . .university intellectuals constitute. . the most left-wing segment. . .of our society.” (Excerpted from a 36,000-word letter from Ted Kaczynski, alleged to be the Unabomber, published by the New York Times and Washington Post in September of 1995.)

Maybe Dan Couldn’t Spell, But He Knows How To Harpoon a Tree-Hugging Fraud When He Sees One Department

“I’ll tell you what. There’s no controlling moral authority in the White House. That’s what the fact of the matter is.”--Dan Quayle, appearing on CNN's Inside Politics program October 26, 1997, when reminded of Weird Al Gore's famous quip that there was "no controlling legal authority" to prevent him from from making fund-raising calls from inside the White House. (From The Washington Times, November 9, 1997 issue).

“Everything that matters in life is decided irrevocably in seconds.” -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, in her 1997 novel, The Deep End of the Ocean.