Politically Correct Quotes
The New York Post reports that a Pennsylvania school district (Quaker Valley) allowed quotes from Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and the head of ISIS to be printed in a high school yearbook. Students who purchased the books can get a refund or get stickers to cover up the quotes. The quotes in question:
o Hitler: "Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
o Stalin: "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas?"
o Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: "Be just: The unjust never prosper. Be valiant. Keep your word, even to your enemies."
What do you think? Are these quotes corrupting? Nothing from Mr. Trump?
Goosey Lucy
The Week magazine reports that as an officer sat in his squad car dosing, a tapping on the door of the vehicle got his attention. It was a goose, and it was insistently tapping with its beak. The officer guessed that he was supposed to follow the goose, which he did. The goose (a mama) led him to a little gosling that was all tangled up with string. The officer cut the string and released the baby goose and mama and baby waddled off happily honking their thanks.
(Just another instance of animal intelligence. For more displays of animal intelligence, read:
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Jilted!
Massachusetts farmer Newton found an unusual rock on his land. Chiseled on it was this jilted lover's lament:
Cap. John M. Brown. Born at Stratford Hill, Cheshire: Oct. the 4th 1809. inscribed upon this rock April the 9th, 1878: "May God Bless Susan and All Her Barren Land. And When She Gets To Heaven I Hope She Finds A Man,"
Alchemy, kind of...
John used to be a chemistry teacher. He still enjoys the odd experiment now and then. One of his favorites is taking beer, whiskey, bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, and wine.. and turning it into urine.
Milestones
These great accomplishments are usually achieved at the following ages:
3: Not peeing your pants.
5: Starting Kindergarten.
16: Having a driver's license.
18: Being able to vote.
21: Being able to drink.
65: Being able to retire.
75: Having a driver's license.
80: Not peeing your pants.
The Week Magazine on May 27th, 2016 talked about two contests that they ran:
1. An Israeli man asked for a restraining order against God for treating him "harshly and not nicely." The magazine was looking for an appropriate title for this story... but not me, I'm just anxious to find out what happened to the guy. Elaine has taken over the next issue, so I won't find out for a while. If you know, please let me know.
2. The second contest related to Budweiser renaming their "watery near beer" .. It will now be called "America." I'm sure the people in the town of Budweiser, Czechoslovakia, are glad to get that junk removed from association with their city. Meanwhile, the Week magazine asked you to imagine that you wanted to use "an equally manipulative" name for the beer coming out of your imaginary brewery. The winners were:
a. United Stouts of America
b. Uncle Sam Adams
c. Foam of the Brave.
Wow! Great entries! Wish I'd thought of them.
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