What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Friday, December 29, 2006
oh dear
We've seen some of these before, but here is a fascinating list of the 50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said. The scariest, in my opinion:
"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." —Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003