Maggie's Farm

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do on a rainy afternoon." Sippican

"If you want to make a problem worse, pass a law to fix it." Economist Art Carden, via Carpe 

"One sentence which has never been spoken in the history of the universe is "Stop s***ing my d*** immediately or I will call the police." George Carlin on sexual regulations and morality, via Ace

"The global green treaty movement to outlaw climate change is the most egregious folly to seize the world’s imagination since the Kellog-Briand Pact outlawed war in the late 1920s." Mead's The Failure of Al Gore: Part Deux

"Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose." It's difficult to believe that the Nanny Of All Nannys Bloomberg said that. Perhaps he was quoting the US Constitution?

"He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me." An assistant of John Lennon, re Lennon's evolving politics. Imagine there's no Carter, no Mondale too...

"Either the problem is in man, or the problem is in "institutions" and other collectivities." One Cosmos