October 2007
10 posts
Oct 19th
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Oct 18th
“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”
Oct 17th
Guns vs. Butter [Wikipedia] →
Somehow Katie made it through MBA level econ without ever hearing of this.
Oct 17th
“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in...”
– Bertrand Russell
Oct 15th
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”
Oct 10th
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Oct 10th
How many Notre Dame students does it take to...
Well… One to distract the rector, one to make a bulb run, one to change the bulb, one to light a candle for it at the Grotto, three to discuss the unparalleled lightbulb-changing tradition at ND, seventy to sing the fight song, and eight thousand to check ND’s ranking in the lightbulb-changing polls.
Oct 9th
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
– Winston Churchill
Oct 8th
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big...”
– Gerald Ford, Address to Congress (August 12, 1974)
Oct 1st