First Cup 05.28.07 »

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~ Jonathan Swift
Happy 3rd Blogiversary to:The Ignoble Experiment, a.k.a. Live Dangerously!
Memorial Day — 2007
The Mudville Gazette (Mrs. Grayhawk) Memorial Day Dawn Patrol
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First Cup 05.29.06 »

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It’s the only thing “real” men do that doesn’t seem to threaten their masculinity. ~ Erma Bombeck
Blue Star Chronicles (Beth) A Succession of Honor — “I watched the National Memorial Day Tribute a little bit ago. It was a good program …. and a good [...]

Memorial Day — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. »

So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiam and faith is the condition of acting greatly. To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might. So must you do to carry anything else to an end worth reaching. More than that, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhpas a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out. All that is required of you is that you should go somewhither as hard as ever you can. The rest belongs to fate. One may fall-at the beginning of the charge or at the top of the earthworks; but in no other way can he reach the rewards of victory.

First Cup 05.27.06 »

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Happy Blogiversary to The Florida Masochist
Home of the Knucklehead of the Day
Outside The Beltway (James Joyner) AG and FBI Director Threatened Resignation — “I’m glad to see someone had some backbone [...]