A Blog of Wrath


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
--John Stuart Mill

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
--Gen. George S. Patton

If we don't want the world's wealth to be controlled by people with money then the alternative is to have the world's wealth controlled by people with guns. Governments have plenty of guns.
--P.J. O'Rourke

Beer is evidence that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Ben Franklin

 
From Italo Calvino's novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (pp 166-67 in the Harcourt Brace ed.):
So this rich guy starts an insurance company against kidnappings . . . So the kidnappers get smart and kidnap one of the rich guys, with the following as ransom: "...all of the capital of the insurance company ... naturally [this would be] to the disadvantage of the kidnapped person ..."
posted by Anonymous at 5:40 PM

 
Finally, how to connect your DVD, VCR, Playstation, etc., actually written in English. (The folks who write the instructions for both JVC and Panasonic are clueless.)
Any other helpful info appreciated, but i think i understand what's going on now. So many ppl still use only the RF wire to watch movies . . .

posted by Anonymous at 9:54 AM