Friday Musings 2/3/2006

By lex

Posted on February 3, 2006

A dog would never crawl its way behind the desk in my office. A dog would never intertwine itself among the profusion of wires and perch itself atop the surge protector. Once seated there, a dog would not, with apparent and implacable malignancy, step its little furry feet atop the power off button, thereby sending into the never-sphere 45 minutes worth of work on a Friday afternoon. And if, by chance, it did? A dog would feel guilty. It would not stare at you in insolence and contempt.

This is only one of the reasons why I like dogs so very much more than cats, gentle reader. There are more reasons. This is only one.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex