Joke of the Day
A 5 year old and a 4 year old are upstairs in their
bedroom.
"You know what?" says the 5 year old, "I think it's
about time we start swearing." The 4 year old nods
his head in approval.
The 5 year old continues, "When we go downstairs
or breakfast I'm gonna say "hell," and you say
"ass", OK?" The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm.
The mother walks into the kitchen and asks the
5 year old what he wants for breakfast.
"Aw hell Mom, I guess I'll have some Cheerios."
WHACK!
He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen
floor, gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out.
The mom looks at the 4 year old and asks with a
stern voice, "And what do YOU want for breakfast,
young man?"
"I don't know," he blubbers, "but you can bet your
ass it won't be Cheerios."
Thought of the Day
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.
-- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
Source: quoted in Mark Thornton, The Economics of Prohibition (University of Utah Press, 1991), p. 17
