Dr Wingnut

Year: 2010

  • Doing the Laundry

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    To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.Logan Pearsall SmithThis quote was the lead to Lewis H. Lapham’s editorial in the May issue of Harper’s on how we are inconsistent in punishing…

  • Whoops!

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    People who make the biggest mistakes are often the holiest.Mary Kassan

  • HTML 5

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    As you may or may not know, a new HTML standard is being worked on which adds some very nice features to the web-o-sphere.  Take a look at this HTML5 Presentationfor some of the wondrous things it will support.

  • Anatomy of an Epidemic

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    The serotonin theory of depression is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity.  Both have been depletion theories, both have survived in spite of the evidence, both contain an implicit message as to what people ought to do. In the case of these myths, the key question is whose interests are being served by a…

  • Morality

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    What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.Ernest Hemingway

  • Comparative advantage

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    It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.John R. Amos

  • An interesting question

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    What is a collective noun for Tiger mistresses?  A “skank” of Tiger mistresses.Peter Segal, NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, 10-Apr-2010