Category: Z: list of all blogs in chronological order (page 3)

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

(Well, I have three children, but I really don’t see why I can’t have the same dream.) On the night…
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“He gets paid to abide by and to enforce the law.” — Assistant Attorney General James J. Wells (Wilford Brimley), Absence of Malice, 1981

I’m not trying to sound blasphemous, but whenever Wilford Brimley lays down the law, it’s like a voice coming straight…
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“If I were a 1.21 jigowatts man…” — cross-quotation of lines from the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964) and the movie Back to the Future (1985)

Yes, I know that the word is spelled gigawatts and not jigowatts.  Among other things, I happen to be a…
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