Monday, October 15, 2007

The Greatest News Story of 2006

Quote of the day:
“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.”
--Ellen DeGeneres

Thought for the day:
“We live in a talking culture, not a thinking culture or a feeling culture. Maybe if we make noise we don’t have to think or feel.”
--Dr. Duh

News Item from October 2006:
“Dozens of Amish neighbors came out yesterday to mourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a brief, unfathomable rampage.”
--Mark Scolforo of the AP

That was the most amazing news story of 2006. It brings to mind the poem by William Wordsworth:

“Thanks to the human heart by which we live,/
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,/ 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give/ 

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

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