Quote of the day

"Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them." --Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher.

Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/a-critic-makes-the-case-for-critics.html?pagewanted=all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers

Poverty and being poor transcends time

But people in the United States, since Reagan was President, seem to have forgotten that.

A quote from the esteemed Dr. Samuel Johnson:

"Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer."


Apparently, we'll get a chance to remember all this, in a short time to come, what with the financial meltdown taking place lately.