January 2016 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS STARTING 2016 WITH A LAUGH… BY LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. —Yogi Berra Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note what it is about your work the critics don’t like—then cultivate it. That’s the part of your work … Read more

December 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! APPETIZERS HOW DOES HE KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE? You’d better watch out, You’d better not cry, You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping Your phone. He’s bugging your room, He’s reading your mail, He’s keeping a file, And running a tail, Santa Claus is … Read more

December 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! APPETIZERS HOW DOES HE KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE? You’d better watch out, You’d better not cry, You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is tapping Your phone. He’s bugging your room, He’s reading your mail, He’s keeping a file, And running a tail, Santa Claus is … Read more

November 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky coined Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. —Erwin Schrodinger … Read more

August 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination — Voltaire (D&S: Not in our neighborhood!) After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. — William Burroughs, 1992 What, sir, would the people of the Earth be without woman? They would be … Read more

July 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS America can cease to be the wealthiest nation on Earth and remain America. It can cease to be the most powerful nation on Earth and remain America. It cannot cease to be the land of the free and remain America. —Charles Murray, Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission,  CATO’S LETTER (CATO Institute) Vol. 13 No. 2 … Read more

June 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS He who has learned, unlearns with difficulty. —ancient Greek proverb The more laws, the more offenders. —ancient Latin proverb Even a hare will insult a dead lion. —ancient Latin proverb Small favors conciliate, but great gifts make enemies. —ancient Latin proverb (Source of proverbs: There’s a Saying for That: PROVERBS from Around the World,edited by … Read more

May 2015 Blog with Durk and Sandy

APPETIZERS “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” — Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard “You seem … to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the … Read more