Tag Archives: quotations
We will never comprehend aliens
23 Jan
This is a quirky quote from a great short story I read recently; The Ray-gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner. It is a sly and funny tale in which the humans are completely unaware that their romance (and their lives) may be being organized by an object they found in the woods. It gave me some insight into that old saying. “The universe is stranger than we understand. Perhaps stranger than we can understand.”
You can find it in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 26th Annual Collection, ed. by Gardner Dozois, published in 2009.
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Grammar Police
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Grammar Police: Exclamation Point Disposal Squad
In the English Grammar System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups; the hyperactive hoi polloi who improperly use multiple exclamation points, and the police who investigate these crimes and arrest the offenders. These are their stories!!!!
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Grammar Police: Unnecessary Quotation Unit
In the English “Language System” the people are “represented” by two separate, yet equally important “groups”; the grammar-deficient public who “insert” gratuitous “quotation marks” without regard for “meaning”, and the “police” who “investigate these crimes” and “arrest” the offenders. These are their “stories”. (Click here to buy this graphic on mugs, hats, t-shirts, etc!)
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Grammar Police: Special Apostrophe Unit
In the English Grammar System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups; the poorly-educated masses who insert unnecessary apostrophes and omit required ones, and the police who investigate these crimes and arrest the offenders. These are their stories. (Click here to buy this graphic on mugs, hats, t-shirts, etc!)
Too much evil?
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The current evil glut
Due to overproduction, world evil prices have plummeted in the last three years. American evil producers have been steadily losing market share to China and other countries where evil can be manufactured for a small fraction of the U.S. cost. Some desperate investors are even considering eliminating evil from their portfolios. Ultimately, I am sure [...]
Bishop Finn
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The Indictment of Bishop Finn
The dark, mind-numbing corruption of the Roman Catholic church was blazingly illuminated recently in the Diocese of Kansas City. Local prosecutors had the courage to indict the Bishop (albeit only for a misdemeanor). You can read about it here.
Please help the rich
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The rich…won’t YOU help?
I can’t really recommend Reach Out To The Rich as heartily as I would the World Ice Tea Organization, for example. The rich have their charities, too, like the opera and their beloved conservative think tanks. We must let them use their donations to shelter their income from taxes. After all, they wrote the tax [...]
