On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thank heavens all that foolishness is behind us now.
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On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thank heavens all that foolishness is behind us now.
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Pope Francis will bring a rabbi and a Muslim leader with him when he
travels to the Holy Land this week. Or as bartenders put it, 'We've been
expecting you.'
–Jimmy Fallon
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Godzilla, in happier times.
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Sad but true: Radioactive kitty litter may have ruined our best hope to store nuclear waste
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Quote of the week:
Don't force stupid people to be quiet. I
want to know who the morons are.
-Mark Cuban
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BBC says Senators have called for a new name for the Washington
Redskins. They suggest the Washington Powerful Old Honkies.
-@PaulaPoundstone
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The outstanding problem of cryogenics isn't whether future advances in
technology will enable you to be unfrozen and brought back to life
10,000 years from now. The outstanding problem of cryogenics is whether
250 consecutive generations of security guards earning $6.50 an hour
will remember to check the thermostat every night.
-John Alejandro
King (The Covert
Comic)
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Skies over Chicago, Wednesday evening, May 21:
a) lightning
b)
they crossed the streams
c) Dr. Jenning is summoning the Dark
Overlords
(Photo by Andrew Chase)
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There's a certain satisfying irony in the fact that the speed with which same-sex marriage is being adopted is due not to states passing bills in favor of it, but in the courts ruling as unconstitutional the bills prohibiting it. An excellent example of the law of unintended consequences. Interesting trivia: John Jones III, the federal court judge who ruled Pennsylvania's defense of marriage act unconstitutional, was nominated to the bench by then-Senator Rick Santorum.
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Hate to say this, but because of Pat Sajak's awful remarks, I will no
longer look to game show hosts for moral guidance.
=@FrankConniff
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"Oh my God, we're all gonna die! You know this is serious if someone on
Fox News just said 'climate change is real.' I believe that is a sign of
the Apocalypse."
-Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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It seems that trying to fix stupid just makes it worse.
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Daugher-in-law Angela, granddaugter Joelle and son Doug celebrating the
at the little one's first birthday party. (It was a WonderPets theme,
hence the cape and tiara.)
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I was rinsing out a plastic Dairy Queen cup which had contained one of their "milk" shakes, and one minute of full-force hot water failed to melt or otherwise remove all of the residue. I don't know whether I should throw it in the recycling bin or call a hazmat team.
And... the desktop is clean.
--KGB
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Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line? (Click here for full Wikipedia article)
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
The Atomic Age is here to stay- but are we?
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results
Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote the piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer? And if so, why?
In a notable family called Stein
There were Gertrude, and Ep, and
then Ein.
Gert's writing was hazy,
Ep's statues were crazy,
And
nobody understood Ein.
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. (on naming his publishing company Random House)
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the author's, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
I think television people have a definite responsibility just like book publishers.
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
It's my theory that we're all hams a little bit under the surface.
I think the right to read is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read.
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(Today is also the birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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