Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Monday, February 23, 2026

Orwell's dumpster

 


Saturday, February 21, 2026

Why beans are best avoided when pregnant


  If the mother eat much beans, or such vaporous food, it endangereth the child to become lunatick.
 
 -- Francis Bacon

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Happiness is supper by five


 

Let it be so hasted, that supper be ready at the farthest by five of the clock.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2 Scene 2 

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Happiness is an extremity you'll do well to avoid


 The East and West
Upon the globe, a mathematick point
Only divides: thus happiness and misery,
And all extremes, are still contiguous.
 
-- Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) 

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Wednesday, January 7, 2026