The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people’s desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they’re doing.”
- Damon Knight, Author
The book depository and a corner of the famed grassy knoll.
Dallas - I was here once, about twenty years ago, for a weekend event that had us fly […]
Every object has a history, and behind that history an inventor, the person who thought it up first. Sometimes who was first can be a topic for hot debate: often several people independent of each other will all think of the same good idea at around the same time and will later have to argue […]
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.”
- Paul Goodman, author
Buenos Aires - I hate to condemn a restaurant because […]
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.”
- The Road Goes Ever On, J.R.R. Tolkein
Buenos Aires - Apparently, just […]
The native foodstuffs of the Americas radically changed eating habits the world over. The Americas gave the world corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, potatoes, and chocolate, to name a few. Most of these ingredients are now staples of our everyday diets, and one can’t easily imagine life without them. Unfortunately, due in great part to the […]
What he said to bite, I bit.”
- Jiang Qing, Chinese revolutionary
Buenos Aires - With the holiday season upon us we haven’t been spending alot of time out eating in restaurants. However, here and there I’ve managed a lunch somewhere with friends and at least gotten a taste of a few places I hadn’t gotten to […]
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
- Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
Buenos Aires - Seventy years ago this past weekend, Ireland came into being as a republic, by declaration of constitution. Prior to that, for a few years it was the “Irish Free State” and prior to […]
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
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"...if you insist on being the aggressive blowhard who takes meatlessness as a personal insult and rails about what fools we all are, you're only going to persuade me that you're a dickhead. When someone says he's Catholic, you probably don't start the stump speech about how God is a lie created to enslave the ignorant masses, and it's equally offensive to berate an herbivore. I know you think we're crazy. That's neat. But seeing as I've endured the hassle of being a vegetarian for several years now, perhaps I've given this a little thought. So let's just agree to disagree and get on with making fun of Hillary Clinton's inability to operate a coffee machine." - Taylor Clark, Slate
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