on adversity

"It's what you do after you crash into the wall that matters."
- Brad Snyder, Paralympic swimmer who was blinded by an IED

scene

A movement in art in Canada.

Rebel Yell

"if you weren't scared, you never heard it."
- Shelby Foote

Japanese word for "Yuppie"

Johsho-shiko: a person who has ambition to rise in the world.

a tour of the white house

like many

"There were very few things he did without calculation."
- On LBJ

bad boy

"A man is as faithful as his options."
- Chris Rock

priority

"Imagination is the most important quality in a man, but is very difficult to find."
- Jackie Kennedy

rocket programs brain

Wernher von Braun was a victim of his own success. He wanted Hitler's attention then got it. His V2 program launched 3000 rockets killing 5000, but JFK ultimately honoured him for his USA space program contributions, including putting men on the moon.

on God

"In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, but one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time."
- Abraham Lincoln

reciprocity

"No friend has done me a favour, nor enemy an injury that I have not repaid in full."
- On Sulla's tombstone

wild call

"The proper function of a man is to live, not exist."
- Jack London

variation on an ancient Japanese proverb

"Vision without execution is hallucination."
- Thomas Edison

homophobic denial

"We were not taught that Tchaikovsky slept with other men."
- Zamir

unintended consequences

Sputnik may have been the Soviet Union's greatest mistake, as it enabled freedom of space; the USA could now photograph any region in the world.

cold warrior

"This world of ours ... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

wring your clothes

"His personality so crowds the room that the walls are worn thin and threaten to burst outwards."
- On Theodore Roosevelt 

if you have things you want to unload

"Moving? Downsizing? A death in the family? If you're in the '519' or '905' area codes or farther afield, Betty may buy your stuff and take it off your hands, including the things for sale at garage/yard sales, such as furniture, jewelry, tools, artwork, china, train sets, tin toys, musical instruments, First Nations cultural artifacts, old furs. Fair prices for whatever is legal to buy and sell."

Call Betty: 519 623 7528  

probably not kidding

"Nothing can make me feel at ease. Except pills."
- Hugh Grant

American Imperialism

"We stole (the Panama Canal) fair and square." 

a place to get a haircut in Cambridge, Ontario

Less than half the price of Toronto salons, but at least equal the skill minus the attitude. Ask for Joe here. 

sociopath, no psychopath

Colonel Jessep

... I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!

motive

"You don't donate to political parties for what they can do for you, but for what they can do to you."
- Haley Barbour

a champion thinking

"Once you know you can do something, then you know you can do it."
- Jimmy Walker, 2016 PGA Champion

where to buy things like this ...

Here.

birthday suit

"Words are the skin of a naked thought."
- Unattributed

how old are you?

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige on breaking records when peers had long since retired

if you don't know someone ...

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

- Carl Jung

cousins

"This man used to the limit the powers granted to him by God."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

never make the first move

A strategy embraced by FDR and Steve Jobs.