Quote of the Day for 2016-02-14

"We are infants still, with loaded guns for toys."

— Philip Wylie (1920-1971) Generation of Vipers, chapter 1

Atomic test Grable, part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, after being fired from an M65 Atomic Cannon at the Nevada Proving Grounds, Frenchman Flat, Nevada (May 25, 1953)

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-28

"[America is] just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

— Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, September

President Nixon, while Vietnam War protesters interrupted a campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum
on Long Island, NY, October 23, 1972. (Photograph by Michael Evans for The New York Times)