Quote of the Day: 31 March 2019

“The Lord opens doors of opportunity and provides the strength each of us needs at difficult times in our life.” -Richard G. Scott

Quote of the Day: 30 March 2019

“My wife is less concerned that I forget things than she is angry that most of the things I forget are things she said.” -@steve_jorbz

Quote of the Day: 29 March 2019

“Although the word ‘economics’ suggests money to some people, for a society as a whole money is just an artificial device to get real things done.” -Thomas Sowell

Quote of the Day: 28 March 2019

“Homeopathic stuff shouldn't be in the pharmacy aisle at the supermarket. It should be in the dumpster out back.” -@neontaster

Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 27 March 2019

This week's selection from the log of local police activity is a modern day miracle.

March 15
Officers checked on a man who was reportedly injured at the intersection of B Street and Highway 47. The man told police that he believed himself to be in Delaware and that he was unable to use his legs. When medical arrived, the man miraculously regained use of his legs, hopped on a gurney, and was transported to the hospital.

I do believe in miracles. Though I doubt this was one. This seems more like a case of someone attempting to get a ride to a hospital under false pretenses.

Quote of the Day: 27 March 2019

“You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.” -Jonathan Haidt

Quote of the Day: 26 March 2019

“Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.” -John Stuart Mill

Quote of the Day: 25 March 2019

“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.” -Vivian, “The Decay of Lying” by Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day: 24 March 2019

“Members of the Church need not and should not be alarmists. They need not be deflected from quietly and righteously pursuing their daily lives[.]” -Neal A. Maxwell

Quote of the Day: 23 March 2019

“It was dreadful when your own thoughts tried to gang up on you.” -Terry Pratchett

Quote of the Day: 22 March 2019

“It’s amazing what people will tell you if you listen.” -Jordan Peterson

Quote of the Day: 21 March 2019

“If you find that something works, keep doing it; if it doesn’t work, stop.” -Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 20 March 2019

This week's selection from the log of local police activity brings us a tale of a forgetful postal customer.

March 12
A caller reported that his mail may have been stolen as none had arrived in his box. On further review, the caller advised that he had mistaken the time of the mail delivery.

I don't know what it would take to prompt me to call the police because I hadn't received any mail. But, because this does happen from time to time, I know that it takes more than a day with no mail in order to trigger this response.

Quote of the Day: 20 March 2019

“Confronted with an impending crisis, I want a companion who doesn’t stand around pondering possible solutions. I want a person who ponders nothing but cuts right to the basic question: Does this situation require a panic or not?” -Patrick F. McManus

Quote of the Day: 19 March 2019

“Saying ‘full stop’ at the end of a statement doesn’t magically make it true.” -Riley Hagan

Quote of the Day: 18 March 2019

“I know exactly what to do and say to make my haters ‘like me’. However, if I say and do those things I wouldn’t like me.” -Colion Noir

Quote of the Day: 17 March 2019

“Nothing man-made can ever approach what God can do for His children.” -Russell M. Nelson

Quote of the Day: 16 March 2019

“[B]eing lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it’s a matter of not knowing where you aren’t—and I don’t care at all about where I’m not.” -Alec Bing, The Phantom Tollbooth

Bonus Quote of the Day: 15 March 2019

“That's what these incidents [mass murders] tend to have in common: A serious lack of shooting back.” -Tamara Keel

Quote of the Day: 15 March 2019

“Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty.” -Milton Friedman

Throwback Thursday: Feast Sneak Failure

Detail from Printed Book of Hours

I am unsure what this dude thought he was going to accomplish. But, I bet he failed. I mean, he's sneaking right in the open immediately next to the main table of the feast. How dense do you have to be to think that might work?

Quote of the Day: 14 March 2019

“[E]verything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.” -Richard Feynman

Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 13 March 2019

This week's selection from the log of local police activity brings a tale of hoplophobia.

March 4A caller reported a man was walking through a residential area with a rifle. The man matched a description of a known member of the National Guard who frequently trains wearing a heavy ruck sack and ‘blue gun,’ a plastic training tool that simulates weapons used in combat.

I can understand not being familiar with weapons, but to mistake a blue gun for a real gun murders the entire point of the blue gun.

Quote of the Day: 13 March 2019

“Temporary happiness doesn’t translate into long-term satisfaction.” -Greg Gutfeld

Quote of the Day: 12 March 2019

“I am a huge fan of females as a gender, but they tend to display a baffling lack of enthusiasm for violent destruction.” -Dave Barry

Quote of the Day: 11 March 2019

“Intolerance has been rampant in many parts of the world, and it cannot be localized to a particular place or a particular reason, whether skin color, religion or some other immediate cause.” -Thomas Sowell

Quote of the Day: 10 March 2019

“Jesus Christ can heal more than just our physical bodies. He can heal our spirits as well.” -Matthew L. Carpenter

Quote of the Day: 9 March 2019

“If everyone would just shut off the news and go out and talk to people they would find out that there are stupid & angry people on all sides[.]” -@steve_jorbz

Bonus Quote of the Day: 8 March 2019

“So, you want to fight for the equality of women? Shine the spotlight on Iran, on Afghanistan, on all the places in the world where a woman can get killed for talking back. Name, shame, denounce. Strip the mask for those who apologize for those regimes even among us — many of them ‘liberal’ — and make them own the horrible things they’re allowing to be done.” -Sarah Hoyt

Quote of the Day: 8 March 2019

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” -Algernon, The Importance of Being Earnest

Throwback Thursday: Awesome Hat

Detail from a Choral Book with King David

This hat is awesome. I miss when we were a hat wearing culture. I do have a fedora (a true fedora, not a trillby) that I wear when I'm wearing a suit. It looks quite nice that way. But I've got nothing like this guy's magnificent headwear.

Quote of the Day: 7 March 2019

“Don’t condemn yourself for having human flaws and failings.” -Henepola Gunaratana

Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 6 March 2019

This week's selection from the log of local police activity brings us a tale of modern day dashing do.

February 22
Forest Grove police assisted Washington County deputies in apprehending a very intoxicated man who was reportedly riding a bicycle through town using a pool cue as a jousting weapon.

If this is what knights have been reduced to, I have to question my high school's selection of mascot. (We were the Lancers.)

Quote of the Day: 6 March 2019

“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.” -John Stuart Mill

Quote of the Day: 5 March 2019

“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” -Moist Von Lipwig, Going Postal

Quote of the Day: 4 March 2019

“Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.” -Ankor Jael, Foundation

Quote of the Day: 3 March 2019

“Don’t mistake lack of self-control for freedom. Complete freedom without appropriate restraint makes us slaves to our appetites.” -Glenn L. Pace

Quote of the Day: 2 March 2019

“How hard could it be to teach students to look on the other side, to look for evidence against their favored view? Yet, in fact, it’s very hard, and nobody has yet found a way to do it.” -Jonathan Haidt

Quote of the Day: 1 March 2019

“You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.” -Jordan Peterson