‘Other experiments showed that [marijuana] acts on parts of the brain involved in memory, appetite, pain and mood.’
Crap, I did not know cannabis could so that. Especially that appetite, mood, and pain thing. Did you know that? Hell, that needs more research. I don’t know that anybody has ever noticed that before.
Juanita Jean’s | The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
“Someone asked Flannery O’Connor why she wrote, and she said, ‘Because I was good at it.’ And I think that’s the right answer. If you’re good at something it’s very hard not to do it.”
Cormac McCarthy, from a very good 2009 interview
“At one point or another, every major sport has come under the influence of organized crime. FIFA actually is organized crime.”
Charles P. Pierce
“Why is it taken for granted that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. The discrepancy is a pure scandal.”
Pope Francis, April 29, 2015
Afterthought: As long as women don’t wish to be priests, that is.
“Jesus Christ and General Jackson!”
What Vice President Harry Truman is reported to have said when told it was urgent he go the White House 70 years ago today.
“[A]ll relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person.”
Roger Ebert
“When I was a child the mailman came once a day. Now the mail arrives every moment.”
Roger Ebert
“A year ago, German scientists argued that cognitive ‘deficits’ in aging were caused largely by the accumulation of knowledge — that is, the brain slows down because it has to search a larger mental library of facts.”
From report, Older Really Can Mean Wiser.
Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of politicians on this date in 44 B.C. Most politicians these days are just character assasins.
π is just a theory, right? We must teach other theories.
Reportedly Senator Inhofe says π is a hoax. Not found in his Bible.
“[T]eaching takes skill and education and dedication. Home schooling…is on a par with home dentistry.”
Dick Cavett (2012)
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Michael Pollan
(Seemed timely what with the latest nutrition guidelines muddying the waters yet again.)
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
George Washington
When asked the main aim of his life, Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine, said:
“To be a good ancestor.”
Quoted in The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Chastened Exceptionalism, Paul Krugman
“Resentment is allowing someone to live rent-free in a room in your head.”
Roger Ebert
”Your odds of winning the lottery are actually 50/50. You either win, or you don’t.”
Unknown quoted at Mac 911
“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
Lily Tomlin