If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.

“Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”

“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I’ve found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they’ll divulge it.”

“What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!”

The trouble with heart disease is that the first symptom is often hard to deal with: sudden death.

I’ve posted today’s entry in my series on the issues, this one on energy policy, at The Glittering Eye.

Please join in the discussion and post your own thoughts on the subject!

The previous entries in the series are:

Introduction
Foreign Policy
Economic Policy
Healthcare Policy

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

Weekend Caption Jam Linkfest. . .

Rodney is ready to square off.
Wizbang is looking in a different direction.
Wyatt Earp runnin’ from the law.
Cowboy Blob is pinchin’ a log
RT’s Ponderings is having a meltdown.
Willisms coulda had a G-8.
The Gone Rick Motel had the holstein.
Right Pundits thinks his smells like roses.
Congrats to Blonde Sagacity on their new addition. *** not…

The Republican-dominated Alaska legislature released its Troopergate investigation results last night and Sarah Palin does not come out covered in glory.

Anchorage Daily News reports, under the headline “Troopergate report: Palin abused power,”

A legislative investigation has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who…

Several commentators have objected to my characterization of Sarah Palin as an”ignoramus” in the post below. I’m simply using the term in its precise meaning as “an extremely ignorant person.”

The dictionary definition of ignorant:

1.    lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.

2.    lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject…

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

“I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”

“I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.”