Quote of the Day for 2016-08-27

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."

— John Buchan (1875-1940) "The Power-House," Blackwood's Magazine (December 1913)

Screenshot from an ITN news story of the Serbian run Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia-Hertzegovina during the Bosnian War (1992)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-15

"I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."

— John Buchan (1875-1940) Speech to the The Law Society of Upper Canada, February 21, 1936

Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro with Phil Witte (June 2, 2007)