иконописПравославни икониThe problem with those who try to penetrate the secrets of the world’s conspiracies is that they don’t ever look on the surface. They haven’t read Poe’s purloined letter. They are the kind of people who used to worry about what rock songs said when played backwards, when the real problem is what they said frontwards.

Long hairs cling to my wool coat

Reminding me of her devotion

And her whispers of “don’t go”

One half of all medical doctors graduated in the lower half of their class, right?

We have about $84.32 in the bank - which makes us about four and a half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. – Jim Borgman

Over the course of the next year or so, you will be told ad nauseum that the nation is suffering from endless gridlock. The American people, it will be said, want things to “get done.” Well, I might want to ask, what things? If I am tied up on the deck of a pirate ship, with a bunch of fellow hostages, and a fight breaks out among the pirates, with one faction wanting us to walk the plank, and the other faction wanting to run us all through, I cast my vote for gridlock. As in, yay, gridlock.

- Douglas Wilson