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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. And many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
–Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad Read more »
Truly…
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” — G. K. Chesterton Read more »
Sound Advice on Speechifying…
“I have read all presidential speeches on both sides up to now and the winner is the man smart enough to not make any more. There is a great chance for a ‘silent’ third party.”
“There is not a voter in America that 24 hours after any speech was made could remember two sentences in it.” Read more »
Isn’t This Like “Jumbo Shrimp?”
“APARTMENT HOMES”
(Sign seen in Midtown Sacramento near P St. & 16thaaaa0 Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Gets This Hint: “Nothing (Here) But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos”
Filum Viae
“Center of the Road” Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is Not Eased By Repeated Anecdote
Onus Probandi
“Burden of Proof” Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is How Rumors Spread
Ore Tenus
“By Word of Mouth”
(Literally: “Merely From the Mouth”) Read more »
Chief Executives Cannot Live By Kale Alone
Gov. Jerry Brown spent part of Sunday September 11 at the Yolo Land Trust’s Annual “Day in the Country” fundraiser at Park Winters, an 1865 Victorian near Winters.
The Democratic governor, who was not accompanied by First Lady Anne Gust, practiced the diversity he says he prizes, sampling a broad swath of the creations by chefs from various Northern California eateries. Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is, Sadly, All Too True
Fugaces Labuntur Anni
“The Fleeting Years Glide By.”
Another Word That Deserves a Revival: “Gobslotch”
“A greedy, clownish person … apt to gobble his food.”
–-William Holloway’s Dictionary of Provincialisms, 1838 Read more »
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