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Clips Nation (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
First of all, I've always understood that Mark Twain coined the phrase that serves as the title of this post. Not so. Apparently , Twain popularized it's use in the United States, but even in his original usage in "Chapters from My Autobiography" he attributes the quote to Benjamin Disraeli. So there, I learned something today. I love statistics as regards NBA basketball. There is much subjectivity...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mark Twain said history doesn't repeat itself - but it often rhymes. What would Twain say about this example of deja vu'Canada has had a minority government for more than two years. Parliament is becoming an increasingly ugly place. The stock markets in the U.S. and Britain have entered a ''bear'' phase while the Canadian market is doing somewhat better. Recession and stagflation talk is in the air....
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Check The Availability (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain." Mark Twain MP3: DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano DOWNLOAD MP3: Shitdisco - 72 Virgins ( Bloody Beetroots Remix) DOWNLOAD MP3: The Delgados - Mr Blue Sky ( E.L.O. Cover) DOWNLOAD MP3: Kaleef - Golden Brown DOWNLOAD MP3: Adam Kesher - Local Girl ( Fisher Preyes Remix) DOWNLOAD MP3: Gentlemen...
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Management by Baseball (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. -- Mark Twain To continue the series on mentoring, I'm going to following the MBB Model of the four bases in sequence and retain their individual meaning. In this case, however, it's going to be focused on mentoring and coaching, in Baseball and on why you should follow Baseball's lead in your own management. First base in the Management...
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Mark Twain famously said there were three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Perhaps we can add a fourth kind: statistics that are outright lies. Jacob Sollum documents a whopper of a lie from Rep. Spencer Bauchus (R-AL) in his arguments for banning online gambling. Speaking against the bill, Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, the committee's ranking Republican, explained that the Unlawful...
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1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Many declinists begin to measure the start of America’s fall from eminence from 1945, when it is typically assumed that U.S. power was unequalled in the world and could only diminish. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” once wrote Mark Twain. “Greatly exaggerated” also described the repeated, periodic predictions of American decline. Indeed, [...]
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John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"A man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
When he wasn't writing stories for the Territorial Enterprise under his new pen name of Mark Twain, Sam Clemens did a little digging in the dirt around Virginia City in search of silver.
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Israel At Level Ground (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Just so you should know: where to get the best WiFi Internet signal when visiting Jerusalem: http://www.jerusalemite.net/modules/article_files/get_attached_file.php?article=501&file=8 If only Mark Twain knew...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
One of my favorite books, “Thinking For A Change”, by John C. Maxwell, has this short but powerful paragraph: “Mark Twain said, “We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it- not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. [...]
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Sify (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Mark Twain has often been quoted as saying Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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with both hands (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The Uriah Heep of Cook County Politics, Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley gamely pumps his stumpy legs ever upward. Like Mark Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ,* Cook County can count on Quigley to climb under any door jamb, if the height of the transom above the doors of power are inaccessible, to height and ethics challenge Mike, with the help of mighty clever friends in the...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
On weekends, the Reader's Almanac takes a break by offering some brief notable events: 1869: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad is published. B orn: Francis Petrarch, biographer, Arezza, Tuscany, 1304; Augustin Daly, playwright, theatrical manager, Plymouth, N.C., 1838; Erik Karlfeldt, poet, Folkärna, Sweden, 1864; Thomas Berger, comic novelist, short-story writer, playwright, Cincinnati, 1924; Nelson...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
On Thursday July 24 at 7:00 pm MacAvoy Layne will once again perform as that Wild Humorist of the Western Slope, Mark Twain. This one-man show portraying Mark Twain's adventures out west will take place at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater, located at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center. The program is good old-fashioned family entertainment, with stories for the kiddies, humor for the adults and words...
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The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Joe Paterno has his own take on Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi' and the challenge a riverboat captain faces trying to navigate the waters of a mighty river. For Paterno, it's a little bit like coaching college football.
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ad_manity | 03/31/2008
Oscar Wilde once wrote that there are no good or bad books; "books are either tedious or charming." In an age where book banning and censorship occur with shocking regularity, it is not only nice to know—it’s essential to know that libraries provide access to controversial materials. In fact, they do not simply shelve such items, they even celebrate them every year for a week in September at a nationwide
