When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like:
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years,
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”
And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool
I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure
these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of
thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
Guest Quotation of the Day
Whether elected or appointedImage of the Day
He considers himself the Lord's annointed,
And indeed the ointment lingers on him
So thick you can't get your fingers on him.
-- "The Politician" by poet Ogden Nash (HT Lawrence Reed
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| Via Dollar Vigilante |
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| via LFC |
From We the Individuals:
Q: How many third wave feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?Chart of the Day: Bureaucrats Decide Consumers Need "Help" Choosing the "Right" Appliance
A:12,000. One to screw it in, one to excoriate men for creating the need for illumination, one to blame men for inventing such a faulty means of illumination, one to suggest the whole "screwing" bit to be too "rape-like", one to deconstruct the lightbulb itself as being phallic, one to blame men for not changing the bulb, one to blame men for trying to change the bulb instead of letting a woman do it, one to blame men for creating a society that discourages women from changing light bulbs, one to blame men for creating a society where women change too many light bulbs, one to advocate that lightbulb changers should have wage parity with electricians, one to alert the media that women are now "out-lightbulbing" men, and 11,989 to just sit there taking pictures for their blog for photo-evidence that men are unnecessary.
Follow-Up Odds and Ends
- Georgia County Refuses Medical Bills For Baby Bounkham, Injured When Officers Threw a Flashbang Grenade in His Crib During Failed Drug Raid.
- Charges dropped against Maher, whom was brutally assaulted by police officer Worden; state prosecutor refuses to charge Worden
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| Via Enfield, CT police department |
Political Cartoon
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| Courtesy of the original artist via IPI |
Billy Joel, "This Is the Time"
