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1/18/2007
Pulitzer Prize Winning Columnist Art Buchwald, 81, Dies
Art Buchwald, 81, the newspaper humor columnist for more than a half-century who found new comic material in the issues that come up at the end of life, died of kidney failure last night at his son's home in Washington, his family announced today.
Buchwald, an owlish, cigar-chomping extrovert, zinged the high, mighty and humor-challenged. His column, syndicated to more than 550 newspapers at one point, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982. He also published more than 30 books.
Read more at the Washington Post.
1/17/2007
Fredrick Nietzsche plagiarizes the thoughts of Dr. Bill
Why I am So Wise
"May I venture to indicate one last trait of my nature, which has caused me no little difficulty in my intercourse with men? I am gifted with an utterly uncanny instinct of cleanliness; so that I can ascertain physiologically-that is to say, smell-the proximity, I may say, the inmost core, the "entrails" of every human soul. . . . This sensitiveness has psychological antennae, with which I feel and handle every secret: the hidden filth at the base of many a human character which may be the result of base blood, but which may be superficially overlaid by education, is revealed to me at the first glance. If my observation has been correct, such people, unbearable to my sense of cleanliness, also become conscious, on their part, of the cautiousness resulting from my loathing: and this does not make them any more fragrant."
"For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible..."
- Nietzsche, unpublished note
An American First - No Matter What
The next U.S. President will be:
(a) A woman
(b) An african-american
(c) A robot
Tax Saving Strategies from OTBL
When being nuts is what you do for a living, you don't have to let the taxman confiscate your hard earned pay.
Remember, School Board Harassment is a legitimate business activity and fully tax deductable. That copy machine you lug to the meetings... Write it off! Calling the employers of local Socialists, late night threat calls... They're all a cost of doing business. Remember other deductable items, videotape, duct tape, and clown suits. Your subscription to The Von Mises Monthly, the John Birch Society Newsletter and The Hudson Star Observer ( if you haven't cancelled yet ) , another deductable expense. Don't forget the internet ink and the cost of your bitstream.
These are just a few ideas to save on you tax bill, just like Alfonse. Good luck, and see you in the "pen".
Al Capone
Alphonse Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an infamous Italian-American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s. His business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer.
Born in New York City to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, he began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming Chicago's most notorious crime figure. By the end of the 1920's, he had gained the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation following his being placed on the Chicago Crime Commission's "public enemies" list. Although never successfully convicted of racketeering charges, Capone's criminal career ended in 1931 when he was indicted and convicted by the federal government for income tax evasion.
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01/17/1893: "Free market capitalists" overthrow Lili'uokalani, Queen of Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was deposed in a bloodless revolution by a group of businessmen and sugar planters and a provisional government established, with annexation by the United States as its aim.
Lili'uokalani was arrested on January 16, 1895 (several days after a failed rebellion by Robert Wilcox) when firearms were found in the gardens of her home, of which she denied any knowledge. She was sentenced to five years of hard labor in prison and fined $5000, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of ʻIolani Palace until she was released in 1896, with the establishment of the Republic of Hawaiʻi. Failing in attempts to regain the throne, she unsuccessfully entered against the federal government claims totaling $450,000 for property and other losses, making personal claim to the crown lands. The territorial legislature of Hawaii finally voted her an annual pension of $4,000 and permitted her to receive the income from a sugar plantation of 6,000 acres (24 km²). She went home to Washington Place, where she lived as a private citizen until her death in 1917 due to complications from a stroke. She was 79. As expected, Hawaiʻi was annexed to the United States through a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress in 1898.
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1/16/2007
The Hounds Of Borderlineville Sniff Out The Future
Learn more about Curtnac's unquestionable insights at ontheborderline.net.
1/15/2007
Luke Ponders the Deeper Mysteries of Life
"Every day, people judge you by the words you use. Rightly or wrongly, they make assumptions about your intelligence, your education and your capabilities. Nothing makes a better impression than a solid mastery of the English language.."
That's why Luke and 2 or 3 other borderline.nut bloggers pooled their resources to purchase the Gerbil Advantage correspondence school CD lecture series.
"Imagine yourself at a business or social gathering. You have the floor. All eyes are on you. You're speaking with confidence and poise, always choosing precisely the right word.
This scene could be real with Gerbil Advantage."
Order before midnight, so you don't interupt you late night threatening call schedule.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
01/15/1914: Ford Introduces The Assembly Line
Henry Ford introduced the assembly line method of manufacturing cars, allowing completion of one Model-T Ford every 90 minutes.
Read more about the history of the assembly line.
PSALM OF THOSE WHO GO FORTH BEFORE DAYLIGHT
By Carl Sandburg
The policeman buys shoes slow and careful; the teamster buys gloves slow and careful; they take care of their feet and hands; they live on their feet and hands.
The milkman never argues; he works alone and no one speaks to him; the city is asleep when he is on the job; he puts a bottle on six hundred porches and calls it a day's work; he climbs two hundred wooden stairways; two horses are company for him; he never argues.
The rolling-mill men and the sheet-steel men are brothers of cinders; they empty cinders out of their shoes after the day's work; they ask their wives to fix burnt holes in the knees of their trousers; their necks and ears are covered with a smut; they scour their necks and ears; they are brothers of cinders.
1/14/2007
Which School Are You Hailing From?
Recently reported on OTBL: "Our View respectfully disagrees with Dean over at uncommoninsight who now takes issue with our rejection of the term and theory of externality. I guess we could simply sum things up and state that Dean is coming from the Chicago School and Our View is hailing from Austria, but that would leave more questions in the minds of readers."
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