Bornfamous

In the 60’s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
- kd

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Kierkegaard

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, “What did Iraq do to us?”
–Susan Sarandon

(with thanks to Dr. Seuss)
?2002 Doug Goodkin
The Whos down in Whoville liked this country a lot,
But the Grinch in the White House most certainly did not.
He didn’t arrive there by the will of the Whos,
But stole the election that he really did lose.
Vowed to “rule from the middle,” then installed his regime.
(Did this really happen [...]

Scary article from The Village Voice:
Some observers say that in the name of human decency there are some things people should have to live with. They object to the idea of medicating away one’s conscience.
“It’s the morning-after pill for just about anything that produces regret, remorse, pain, or guilt,” says Dr. Leon Kass, chairman of [...]

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices than not be noticed at all.
- Harry S. Truman

Interesting coincidence: my daily blog entries abruptly stopped last summer at about the same time I began taking Zoloft. It worked too well. My depression/anxiety were gone but I couldn’t think of any reason to write any more. Which is really depressing.

“An unfortunate misunderstanding led to the door being slammed and one of the bottles of soda being agitated in such a manner as to set off a carbonated chain-reaction. As the pressure built in the critical door region, upon which all entry to the refrigerator hinged, the dairy shelf sent an envoy to discuss disarmament [...]

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
–Albert Einstein

Among cancer doctors, it is called the chemotherapy concession. At a time when overall spending on prescription drugs is soaring, cancer specialists are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars each year by selling drugs to patients ? a practice that almost no other doctors follow.
The cancer specialists can make huge sums ? often the [...]

When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.
A great [...]

Now, you can take part in an experiment that tests Milgram’s idea [of "six degrees of separation" between any two US citizens]. Academics at Columbia University in New York are repeating his experiment with email. Once registered, you are given a target recipient and asked to forward the email to someone who might be able [...]

It’s never too late to do nothing.
–Zen saying [via Cloud 9]