Month: March 2023

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]

Below is a photo by Clear Blue Sky of the Winston Churchill statue in Paris. In 1998, it was erected and unveiled […]

Ideology is a uniquely unhelpful way to get anything done. When years ago I worked on Capitol Hill, no one seemed to […]

Ode On A Grecian Urn Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst […]

(How can we put this?)

“We have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.” “”H. Hesse, Steppenwolf

I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil. –Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

If you have nothing nice to say, come sit by me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Died on February 20, 1980 at 96.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. –Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, London

When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was […]

The Governess, 1739, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) In case your Governess never told you, you’re from Utah, or you were stoned all seven […]

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. —Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

“The purpose of the Irish guy is to drink and wear trousers.” –Irish Woman, Dublin, to Dan Hull, 2011 But there’s more. […]

John Irving (b. March 2, 1942)

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Established in 1859 as the “Potomac Barge Club”, the Potomac Boat Club is a rowing club on the Potomac River that sits […]

Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, allowing […]

Excerpt from the famous November 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with writer and humorist Hunter S. Thompson conducted by Craig Vetter, a well-regarded […]

“I would have won them all–if my clients hadn’t kept reloading and firing.” –Richard “Racehorse” Haynes (1927-2017). Trial Lawyer.