Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Theodore Roosevelt


"There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character"
Henry Louis Mencken


"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man" - Benjamin Disraeli (4 de Abril de 1872)


Um desafio.

Querem perceber a importância da pontuação na ortografia?

A frase abaixo, que aprendi pequeno com a minha mãe (não vão depois dizer que é plágio se já conhecerem) apenas precisa de um ponto final para fazer sentido. Onde?

"Um caçador tinha um cão e a mãe do caçador era também o pai do cão".

(parte de uma "trilogia" que, caso desperte curiosidade pode ser vista aqui.)






Tenho uma vez mais de discordar do Tiago Mendes. O meu voto no concurso Miss Universo 2007 vai para a representante de Angola, Micaela Reis. Desculpem a insistência.


Keith Burgess-Jackson

Religious toleration is one of the West’s oldest and most cherished institutions. Unfortunately, the concept of tolerance is widely misunderstood, in large part because it has been commandeered by multiculturalists. To tolerate something is not to accept it, agree with it, endorse it, embrace it, or affirm it. It is to put up with it. Toleration is the practice of not persecuting those who have different beliefs. A tolerant person says, “Your beliefs are false, and you are going to burn in hell forever; but I’m not going to burn you at the stake (or otherwise harm you) for having them.” Some people think that tolerance means not being judgmental. This is exactly backwards. Tolerance presupposes that some beliefs are true and others false. To tolerate another is to judge that his or her beliefs are false.

(também postado n'O Insurgente)


America cannot "go it alone."

De quem é? De Condoleeza Rice, quem mais? É a frase do mês, porque o Ocidente precisa de um sistema de defesa que funcione.