Posts tagged “POTUS”

#FridayFive: A Better House

View the Friday Five from November 15th, 2024

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Harry S. Truman

Huge day for The National Ketchup Council.

“There is absolutely no reason why, out on the street, today, a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon.”
Ronald Reagan, Sacramento, CA, May 2, 1967

Happy Birthday, Teddy

Teddy Roosevelt, the Original Rough Rider

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame–Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jimmy Breslin died today. He wrote A Death in Emergency Room One, one of the finest pieces of journalism perhaps ever written. I read it for the first time ages ago, and it is just as powerful still. If you’ve never read it, take a few minutes and consume this timeless article on the events that occurred on November 22, 1963.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
Theodore Roosevelt

I have been in a great quandary over trusts. I do not know what attitude to take. I do not intend to play a demagogue, but on the other hand, I do intend to see that the rich man is held to the same accountability as the poor man. And when the rich man is rich enough to buy unscrupulous advice from very able lawyers, this is not always easy.
Theodore Roosevelt
in an August 15, 1899 letter to a friend

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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.