Dr Wingnut

Month: March 2005

  • Inspiration

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    You can’t wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.Jack London (1876 – 1916)

  • Family

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    After I said, “I love you, and there isn’t anything you can do about it,” my friend Denise said that her daughter had this bracelet that she was wearing that said, “FAMILY” on it.  When Denise asked what that meant, her daughter told her that it was like one of those WWJD bracelets, except that…

  • Dangerous Offspring

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    Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.  When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.Bill Moyers, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 30 Jan 2005

  • Cautiousness

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    Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

  • Down on the farm

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    Amy, a blonde city girl, marries a farmer.  One morning, before he goes out to the fields, the farmer says to her, “The Artificial Insemination man is coming to impregnate one of our cows today.  I drove a nail into the two-by-four above the cow’s stall.  You show him where it is, okay?”So the farmer…