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• A serious public debate about the validity of astrology?
  A serious believer in the White House? Two of them?...
• David Brinkley: The daily astrological charts are precisely where, in my judgment, they belong, and that is on the comic page.
  George Will: I don't think astrology belongs even on the comic pages....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob.
  To rebel against the scientific establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail....
• We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
  -- Mikhail Gorbachev...
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines.
  I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself....