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July 26, 2008
"Society is the same in all large places."
"Society is the same in all large places. I divide it thus:
1. People of cultivation, who live in large houses.
2. People of cultivation, who live in small houses.
3. People without cultivation, who live in large houses.
4. People without cultivation, who live in small houses.
5. Scrubs."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) (writing while a medical student at Harvard)
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - from Wikipedia
- Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes at Project Gutenburg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - from Wikipedia
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July 23, 2008
Counsels of St. Francis de Sales
Live + Jesus!
"I found Him, whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go."
"Gaze on God simply and straightforwardly and let Him do as He pleases."
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July 18, 2008
Time for Some Campaignin'
Time for Some Campaignin' - from JibJab on YouTube
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July 16, 2008
Happy Yorkie and owner
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July 06, 2008
Globalization and Its Discontents
Red State Update: Budweiser Bought By Foreigners? - YouTube
"Country Boys Can Survive: The Boys of Red State Update have Risen from Murfreesboro Obscurity to National Fame," by Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene, September 20, 2007
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July 04, 2008
"Bachelorhood And Its Discontents"
It wasn't just that the bachelor was untrustworthy, wrote [George] Ade, he was also a “draft dodger” and a “slacker,” one who had exchanged the traditional male role of provider for that of refusenik. Or, as another wag put it, “The bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.” Until quite recently the office bachelor was seen as a serious liability, and earned considerably less than his married counterpart. Vance Packard, in his 1962 book The Pyramid Climbers, noted that, “In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him…[However] the worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn’t married. Is it because he isn’t virile? Is he old-maidish? Can’t he get along with people?” By contrast, the married man was the steady one, the stable lot, not least because, in Tallyrand’s memorable phrase, "a married man with a family will do anything for money.”
"Bachelorhood And Its Discontents," by Christopher Orlet, New English Review, July 2008
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July 02, 2008
"Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013"
The Onion: Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013
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