Green with Envy…

God made the grass, the air and the rain; and the grass, the air and the rain made the Irish; and the Irish turned the grass, the air and the rain back into God.

-Seán O’Faoláin

You…out of the gene pool!

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Pathos…

I hope we don’t lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office … must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace.

-Walter F. Mondale

Dark Matter...

All I know is a door into the dark.

-Seamus Heaney

Whip it, whip it good.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

-Richard M. Nixon

A Note From Joe

I saw him yesterday, Bob, at the coffee shop. He hasn't been around for weeks. Since this blog was created. Where has he been?

To merely say that I'm worried about Bob, and the strange world in which he sets up residence, would be to understate my concern.

When I walked in, he pretended not to know me. He was scribbling something in one of his BOB'S WORLD spiral bound notebooks, the curious diaries we see but a glimpse of on this blog. He carefully hid the page from me.

"You'll never see what I just drew," he told me. "Nobody will ever see what I just drew."

He then spilled, in what I hope was an accident, some coffee over my hand.

That coffee was hot, and it burned.

Serpents among us…

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

-Adolf Hitler

Don’t be Hatin’

Hitler was an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

– Pat Buchanan