14 January 2023
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
And also,
“Never fight an inanimate object.”
- P.J.O’Rourke.
7 January 2023
“MacGuffin: an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking intrinsic importance.”
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
31 December 2022
Tuco (reading from a note): “See you soon, [he struggles to read the next word.] Idi.. idi..”
‘Blondie’: “Idiots. It’s for you.”
- Tuco (Eli Wallach) and ‘Blondie’ (Clint Eastwood) in ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, dir. Sergio Leone, 1966.
Winning.