Tuesday, 10 February 2015

A Separate Creation

In the first place, 
God made idiots. 
That was for practice. 
Then he made school boards.

 — Mark Twain

Monday, 9 February 2015

Elections = To Silence

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that
in a democracy you vote first and take orders later;
in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

 — Charles Bukowski

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Better Read When Dead

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
 — Ambrose Bierce

Saturday, 7 February 2015

DV8

Without deviation progress is not possible.
 — Frank Zappa

Friday, 6 February 2015

A Dying Breed

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, 
I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief 
their number may be substantially reduced.

 — John B. S. Haldane

Monday, 2 February 2015

Saturday, 31 January 2015

Friday, 30 January 2015

Thank God It's Friday

Hjalti's couplet that almost sparked war between pagans and Christians in early Iceland:

Vilkat goð geyja
grey þykkjumk Freyja

I will not blaspheme the gods,
but I think Freyja is a bitch

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Confidence Trick

Fundamentalist Christians: people who think that they can live forever by believing something written down.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Monday, 12 January 2015

Inverse Proportions

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. 
It is the chief occupation of mankind.
 — H. L. Mencken

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Sorry

To apologise is to lay the foundation for a future offence.
 — Ambrose Bierce