COVID, Atlantis And S&M...

 "The Fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad..." -- Phil Ochs

"Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you tried going mad without power? Its boring and no one listens to you..." -- The Simpsons

"In a world gone mad only a lunatic is truly insane..." -- Homer

Notes on Grief...

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break..." -- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

You All Suck (#52 - Arguing With Idiots Edition)

 

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something..." -- Plato

"Science" Run Amok...

"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction allow a human being to be harmed.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such an order would conflict with The First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws..." -- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"

Refreshed and Vindicated...

  "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for..." -- Epicurus

The "Scooby Doo" Moment...

 "...and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog..." -- Every unmasked "Scooby-Doo" villain.

The World You Live In IV

 "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have to determine if the wish of the patient is medically justified..." -- Jack Kevorkian, M.D.

"For who could be taught the knowledge of experience from paper? Since paper has the property to produce lazy and sleepy people, who are haughty and learn to persuade themselves, and learn to fly without wings...Therefore, the most fundamental thing is to hasten to experience..." -- Paracelsus

A Majority of One (Tribalism is for Losers...)

 "I am NOT a racist....I hated Obama's White Half, too..." -- The Overlord

You All Suck (#40 - "The Cure" vs. "A Therapy")

"There are some people in this Age of COVID-19 who, by their very utterances, have become proof that stupid will never be cured, and in doing so, make a very convincing case that in our quest for a cure to COVID-19, they should be rounded up and used as human guinea pigs. This would make them far more useful than their current, self-appointed, role as amateur internet epidemiologist  ..." -- The Overlord

Douchebags of the Week (Week Ending 7/18/2020) - Empty Heads And Empty Vaginas

"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."  -- Bernard Barton

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that." -- George Carlin

Bad Science, Stupid Liberals and Haircuts...

"I am Theophrastus, and greater than those to whom you liken me; I am Theophrastus, and in addition I am monarcha medicorum and I can prove to you what you cannot prove...I need not don a coat of mail or buckler against you, for you are not learned or experienced enough to refute even a word of mine...As for you, you can defend your kingdom with belly-crawling and flattery. How long do you think this will last?  Let me tell you this: every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes, and my shoe buckles are more learned than your Galen and Avicenna, and my beard has more experience than all your colleges." -- Paracelsus, "Selected Writings"

You All Suck (#37 --Defiant F*cktards and Snotrags)

"During these times there was a pestilence by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated. Now in the case of all other scourges sent from heaven some explanation of a cause might be given by daring men, such as the many theories propounded by those who are clever in these matters; for they love to conjure up causes which are absolutely incomprehensible to man, and to fabricate outlandish theories of natural philosophy knowing well that they are saying nothing sound but considering it sufficient for them, if they completely deceive by their argument some of those whom they meet and persuade them to their view. But for this calamity it is quite impossible either to express in words or to conceive in thought any explanation, except indeed to refer it to God. For it did not come in a part of the world nor upon certain men, nor did it confine itself to any season of the year, so that from such circumstances it might be possible to find subtle explanations of a cause, but it embraced the entire world, and blighted the lives of all men, though differing from one another in the most marked degree, respecting neither sex nor age." -- Procopius, Accounts of the Plague of Justinian (various sources)