and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Being free to say your piece matters. For example, if you thought a book inappropriate for your ninth grade daughter to study in English you could go to a school board meeting and say so, right?
The discussion was about the book, but the real issue is the right to have a discussion.
That could so easily have been me …
I venture that the reason Groucho had that to say about politics is that global warming hadn’t yet been invented.
Feldstein was editor from 1956-85, during which time he moved Mad from an obscure comic book into a sarcastic, irreverent satire machine.
Indeed, the young boomers handbook. Thanks Al.
Venality …
Perhaps not what you would want in your eulogy.
Besides highlighting his corruptibility Paul Keating also suggested that Neville Wran had a “PhD in poetic profanity”.
Poor Neville, I guess that was the eulogy he had to have.
Wikipedia, an incredible resource …
Another embarrassment for Wikipedia was the recent revelation that a hoax page had survived for five years and had won several awards. The ‘Bicholim conflict’ entry was a detailed but fictitious account of a war in Indian Goa that never took place. It was rated as one of Wikipedia’s top pages and received a quality award that only one per cent of all Wikipedia articles achieve.
Just how incredible? An excellent article <HERE>.
The initials NSW stand for No Scruples Whatsoever.
Spin the bottle
Found at Visual Consumer.
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