It's Friday!

A barbershop quartet sings Rebecca Black:

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

It's Thor's Day!

Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

LOVE this.

Rose Wilder Lane

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
Rose Wilder Lane

Risk

And then the day came
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom

Attributed to Anais Nin

Happy Birthday, David Hume!

"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."

And sport a jaunty hat!

John Muir Quote

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir

Happy Bat-Day!

On this day in 1939, Detective Comics introduced Batman for the first time.

Norman Maclean Quote

"Something within fishermen tries to make fishing into a world perfect and apart - I don't know what it is or where, because sometimes it is in my arms and sometimes in my throat and sometimes nowhere in particular except somewhere deep. Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect."
Norman Maclean