"There's probably no intervening, judgmental God who controls football games. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

Modified British Atheist Advertising Slogan

“I have studied deeply the philosophies and religions but cheerfulness keeps breaking through” - Leonard Cohen, Concert In London

“I've always felt .... that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."  --Studs Terkel (May 1912 - Oct 2008)

“All governments lie” -  I.F. Stone

“.... money doesn't talk, it swears”  -- Bob Dylan’s It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

“Never ever doubt the  human ability to deny reality” 

“You can fool some of the people some of time and that’s enough to make a good living” -- W.C. Fields (and Bernie Madoff?)

“Tried men. Tried women. Love cats”  Anonymous Valentine’s Day Lament

“The best men still have a lot of little boy in them” Eleanor Roosevelt regarding FDR and Churchill

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”

            William Osler (1849 -1919), Canadian physician

“I Hope Obama Fails. Somebody’s gotta say it.”   Rush Limbaugh, Friday January 16 2008

“I hope the  egomaniac  Limbaugh is taken by an act of god -- by overdosing with viagra and oxycontin while in bed with Karl Rove.  SOMEBODY’S GOT TO SAY IT”  -- MR

Another thought:   “He  talks like an idiot and acts like an idiot but don’t let that fool you, he is an idiot”

-- Groucho Marx

“Americans always do the right thing -- but only after exhausting all other options”  --

Winston Churchill

“The only statistics I believe are the ones I make up”   Attributed to Winston Churchill

“Trust in God but tie your camel”  Muslim proverb

"Make plans for 100 years, but you must be ready to die at any moment.”

Roberto Canessa, one of the two men who walked out of the Andes to save the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash

“Life is a bad  play with a  lousy final scene.  At current  prices, could we at least make it  a decent play”   MR

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” -- James Joyce

“I was surprised that after taking office to find that government was as bad as we said it was “   -- John F Kennedy 1961

“Blessed are the  young for they shall inherit the national debt” 

The Wall Street bailout “Never have so many given so much for so few”  -- Mangled Winston Churchill.

"I've always felt .... that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."  --Studs Terkel (May 1912 - Oct 2008)

Conversation with future Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing in 1969:

Lessing: "You do still have gangsters [in Chicago], don't you?" Terkel: "Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics."