Found Content

Sometimes you find it. Sometimes it finds you. Books and the Internet brim with notable quotes, clips and links. If you search for something more than twice, it is probably time to snag a copy for yourself - presented here as a rough equivalent of a junk drawer of found stuff or things that do not have a proper home.

In the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

DESERT ISLAND LINKS

Alexa
APM Marketplace
CEO Express
The Books of Ruth
Thomas Jefferson Hour
Transom

DISTRACTIONS

X-Factor (Danyl Johnson) 2009

Tacoma's Matthew Bethke on Religion

Jimmy Fallon'sTebowie

Two Kermits Under Pressure

Parody in Response to Stupidity (or worse)

Every creative spirit is hounded by a thousand angry men appointed to guard the past.
- Unknown

Early Carly

In the digital Renaissance, a leader's greatest obligation is to make possible an environment where peoples' minds and hearts can be inventive, brave, human and strong; where people can aspire to do useful and significant things; where people can aspire to change the world.

- Carly Fiorina

Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching.
- US Army Officers Manual, 1894

Superstar vs. Hero

The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be superstars rather than heroes.

The distinction is crucial. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about.

- Henry Kissinger

Coming Home

Train Station Dance

Trafalgar Hey Jude Sing-Along

Turn it up louder, that's what my DJ told me...

Making the Right Thing the Fun Thing

King Curtis: "We're the sorry people..."

Portage and Main

Looking back at a prairie town
People ask me why I went away
To fly with the best, sometimes you have to leave the nest
But the prairies made me what I am today

Winter nights are long
Summer days are gone
Portage and Main, 50 below
Springtime melts the snow
Rivers overflow

- Randy Bachman

Live like Jimmy Buffet

I don't want to live on that kind of island
No I don't want to swim in a roped off sea
Too much for me, too much for me
I've got to be where the wind and the water are free.

- Jimmy Buffet, A Cowboy in the Jungle (1990)

The Conservative Sesquipedian

For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D.s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaves us just about the hottest thing in town.

- William F. Buckley on debut issue of National Review in 1955. The conservative sesquipedalian (lover of big words) died on February 27, 2008 at the age of 82.

Showbiz and Politics

Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.

- Aruis Chalmers, Reporter, Albany, New York

Taking Over

That is my entire purpose: world domination. Canadian cultural imperialism.

- Moses Znaimer CHUMCity, 1992