The Bopst Show - Episode 13
July 13, 2008 - 21:43
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I love a good quote. In my everyday life, little bits of wisdom infiltrate my internal manifesto on a daily basis. Here are some that visit me often:
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” Thomas Pynchon
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be … The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson
“You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” Beverly Rubik
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” Gen. George Patton
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.” Malcolm X
“A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.” H.L. Mencken
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” George Orwell
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” Stephen Leacock
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” Robert Frost
“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” Ashleigh Brilliant
“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” Sun-Tzu
“The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.” Sun-Tzu
“The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.” William E. Simon
“Language is a virus from outer space.” William S. Burroughs
“Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mike to tell us hell die before he’s sold
But I believe in this-and its been tested by research
That he who fucks nun will later join the church.” Joe Strummer/Mick Jones
“Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“He who bites the hand that feeds him licks the boot that kicks them” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” Mark Twain
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As always, I hope you enjoy the show…
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BOPST
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I am anxious to listen to this weeks podcast.
I don’t know what is on it, but you are being blocked in the office.
Have to download it @ home.
Stu
Maybe it’s time you quit that job, Stu….
Chris,
I think I’ll keep the job for the time being. Beck and I have grown accustomed to living in a house. : )
They must have started blocking downloading of mp3’s or something. Downloaded you at home and brought it in.
Good show.
There should be a sign up sheet propostion F. Such a fine word. And sometimes there just isn’t a substitute.
Lastly, loved “Be thankful for what you got”. Great tune. Played it back about 6 times. Gotta get a copy for myself.
Chris,
Yet another awesome show!
One time, I was pulling into Crossroads Coffee on an cold and icy parking lot. There was a guy starting to park out by the sidewalk, so that you had to drive very delicately around him to get by, and avoid hitting pedestrians coming in and out of the shop. If you know the shop, you know how hard it is to get in from the north side of the street. There were plenty of empty spaces in the lot. So I honked at him, hoping he would move and not endanger anyone else. As I got out of car, he told me off. No swear words. I called him an asshole, and said that he could cause an accident. With that he chastized me for swearing in front of my two young sons that were in the car. Frankly they were too young to get the word, but that some folks are more concerned about words than actions that endanger others always boggles my mind. It cracks me up how some folks hide behind this pious holier than thou language thing, but practice otherwise. Bad words are rarely uttered in our house around the kids, mostly to keep them from getting in trouble at school, but otherwise, they are just words. Carlin had it right.
My favorite thing about Carlin is that he forced you to use your brain…
I just streamed WFMU. Wow. Another great station to add to my favorites.
It’s the best station in the country…
My children are expert cursers, actually. I bet most kids are, whether or not their parents are aware of it. However, they do know that it is unacceptable to use such words in most circumstances.
That is perfect parenting as far as I’m concerned. I knew all the dirty words and loved them dearly as a wee lad, but I knew not to use them in the company of adults. My parents never had to tell me not to use them because I simply knew that using them would land me in trouble. I hope to impart this practical verbal wisdom onto my own precious spawn…
wasnt it cool when dick cheney told that guy to “fuck off” on the senate floor…cool
It’d be cooler when somebody tells Dick Cheney to fuck off and then blows his head off.
The worst influence on our kids is my wife’s father (a law professor) who gets endless joy singing songs like Dan Dan the Lavatory Man to the little crumb snatchers. Elisa is right, most kids know the words, largely from the playground, but at 5 and 6 I just bite my tongue. It’s just easier.
Vocal utterances are the least of mankind’s worries. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, is one of humanity’s most pressing concerns…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEzPVP6EVRk
On Saturday, July 26, at 1 p.m. Richmond area citizens will rally in front of the offices of the Richmond Times-Dispatch at 300 E. Franklin Street, in opposition to any U.S. attack against Iran. The location was chosen in response to the newspaper’s increasingly incendiary stories about perceived threats from that nation.
The July 26 protest is supported by several Richmond-area peace and justice organizations. Protesters will also call for an end to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
I hope you might give this a mention on your next show. Thanks.
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