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Posted: Apr 14, 2022 - 2:06pm
There is either understanding, or no understanding. (Mis-understanding is nothing but an illegitmate feat, used to excuse oneself.)

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Posted: Mar 14, 2022 - 2:19pm

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961.

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Posted: Feb 23, 2022 - 10:00am
The late Townes Van Zandt famously said of Olney: "Any time anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are... I say Mozart, Lightnin Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard — and that's true. I mean that from my heart."

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Posted: Feb 15, 2022 - 6:58am
Hypocrisy is a two-edged sword with a broken point. Hack em and stack em...

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Posted: Jan 31, 2022 - 2:24pm
miamizsun wrote: "Occasionally one might turn their back on the whole fandango, move to an acutely decipherable distance and acutely observe whilst deciphering..." - ~~odd~~ old v

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Posted: Jan 31, 2022 - 2:13pm
"Occasionally one might turn their back on the whole fandango, move to an acutely decipherable distance and acutely observe whilst deciphering..." - ~~odd~~ old v

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Posted: Jan 28, 2022 - 9:51am
The role of politics is to keep things in order, and not to regulate our inner problems.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2021 - 11:48am
you can have money from the floor up to the ceiling , but the size of your funeral will depend on the weather!

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Posted: Oct 15, 2021 - 4:03am
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

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Posted: Oct 7, 2021 - 10:56am
Society without trust is hell on earth.

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Posted: Oct 6, 2021 - 6:14am

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.~ Michael Crichton, MD.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.~ Michael Crichton, MD.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.~ Richard Feynman

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying “No” to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.~ Ignazio Silone

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Posted: Aug 5, 2021 - 5:31am
"If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!" - Chris Rock

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Posted: Jul 31, 2021 - 3:23am
“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” â Benito Mussolini “A society that separates it’s scholars from it’s warriors will have it’s thinking done by cowards and it’s fighting done by fools.” - Thuycydides

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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 - 1:02pm

rhahl wrote:

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I can't get over how interested people are in Zappa now. He was considered a novelty act throughout most of his career, like Spike Jones, but transgressive.

He had a loyal cult following from the 1970s into the '80s. I had a number of friends who would go to his concerts whenever he came near by. It seemed like he would play a medium-size venue (The Palladium or The Beacon Theater) in NYC at least once a year, but never large arenas like MSG or stadiums. He didn't get much radio play other than a few "pre-playlist-era" stations or college stations though. I think he was considered more musically "convoluted" or satirical than he was considered a novelty act to most critics and other musicians - "Dancin' Fool" and "Valley Girl" notwithstanding. He likely was a fan of Spike Jones though certainly more transgressive.

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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 - 10:42am

Proclivities wrote:

sirdroseph wrote:

"If you want an education go to a library. If you want indoctrination go to a college." Frank Zappa.

Never saw that one before, but I have seen this one for a number of years:
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. - Frank Zappa

That quote seems more like something Ray Bradbury may have said, but likely did not.

I heard Zappa interviewed on NPR in the early 90's, after the Soviet Union broke up. He had just come back from Russia. People wanted to know how capitalism worked and had asked: How do you make money running hotels? There is no profit in it. He said, You don't make money running hotels, you make money selling them. In other words, assets inflate by design. That was news to me too at the time.

I can't get over how interested people are in Zappa now. He was considered a novelty act throughout most of his career, like Spike Jones, but transgressive.

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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 - 6:12am
sirdroseph wrote: "If you want an education go to a library. If you want indoctrination go to a college." Frank Zappa. Never saw that one before, but I have seen this one for a number of years: If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. - Frank Zappa That quote seems more like something Ray Bradbury may have said, but likely did not.

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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 - 6:03am
"If you want an education go to a library. If you want indoctrination go to a college." Frank Zappa.

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Posted: Jun 6, 2021 - 2:17pm
Big quips twist thin lips... buddy

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Posted: May 30, 2021 - 4:51pm
If you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth. The Ether

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Posted: May 30, 2021 - 11:01am
"The anger phase is supposed to be a bridge; not the destination." ~ Ed, a guy on the internet

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“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”