Monthly Archives: September 2008

Not far from Quartz Hill Community Church and Quartz Hill School of Theology, Honda created a musical road for one of their commercials; I’ve heard that the only other places in the world that have a road like this are … Continue reading →

Jerry Pournelle, the science fiction author, wrote today on his blog: This was in a recent Wall Street Journal article on social conservatism: St. Thomas Aquinas taught that “we do not offend God except by doing something contrary to our … Continue reading →

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows … Continue reading →

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. George Orwell

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. Larry Niven

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man… Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

An interesting opinion page piece by Crispin Sartwell in today’s LA Times, A Righteous Refusal is Everyone’s Right: I am a pro-choice atheist. But I support a regulation, recently promulgated by the Bush administration, that would cut federal funding to … Continue reading →