Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio? Click @to find out.

In 1947 the thought police were in control. The motion picture industry followed these written guidelines for a decade. "Don't smear industrialists...don't smear the free enterprise system...don't smear success...don't give your character-as a sign of villianry-a desire to make money...don't talk about the common man-its not the American idea to be common...show the world an American kind of man for a change. It is a moral duty to throw into the ash can every story that smears industrialists." Click @to out who wrote this.

For those of you who thought you were alone, fear not! There are others who share your feelings about Newt. Two excellent links:
The Unofficial Monsieur Newt Gingrich Page What's Newt?

"Had Herzl been to a heder, never would the Jews have followed him. He charmed the Jews because he came from the European culture." Name the famous Zionist founder who said this.

Bella Abzug, 1920-1998

"The Jewish revolution is taking place in a revolutionary era. This is a source of danger, and the pitfalls, though perhaps not evident on the surface, are real and deep." (Even the Zionist leader who said this in 1944 could not have foreseen how real and deep the pitfalls were.)

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

"Goodbye Our Red Flag".

. . . I didn't take the Tsar's Winter Palace.
I didn't storm Hitler's Reichstag.
I am not what you call a "Commie.
But I caress the Red Flag and cry.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Remember how dumb I used to be?"
"Yeah"
"Well, I'm better now."
Laurel and Hardy, Wonders of Comedy

Mae West:
"When I'm good, I'm good; but when I'm bad, I'm very good."
"So many men, so little time."
"He who hesitates is last."

Satchel Paige: "Don't look over back, 'cause there might be something gaining on you."

But Winston Churchill says:"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." And Bob Marley says: "In this great future you can't forget your past."

"These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."

Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997
"His father was a published poet, a high school teacher and Jewish left-winger. His mother a communist and a nudist who went insane and had a lobotomy. The product of this marriage produced one of the foremost American poets of this century. Allen Ginsberg, bard of the Beat Generation and radical father of counter-culture continued espousing 'Zen Judaism' ("be nice, don't fight") philosophy to the time of his death." Ginsberg-Cosmic Baseball Association

Henny Youngman: "My wife liked to talk to me whenever she had sex. She'd call me on the phone at least once a night."

"Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace..."

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game -- Jacques Barzun

"There was this law of life, both so cruel and so just, that demanded one must grow or else pay more for staying the same." Norman Mailer

Bob Costas on the '97 World Series: "The expanded playoffs have diluted the impact of the LCS World /series. But with no disrespect to the Indians and Marlins, a casual fan doesn't believe this is the best baseball has to offer. It's a case of the chickens coming home to roost."

Jerry Garcia: "You're going to miss me when I'm gone."

Mickey Mantle: "I loved playing baseball. Nobody could have loved playing ball as much as me."

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

When accused of being drunk, this 1930's actor said: "Madam, I may be drunk today. But tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

Advice: Everybody has ideas about the way to live. but as far as the great mass of people are concerned, their ideas are as bad as each other; they're all worthless. Don't pay attention to their advice.

"There is no way to predict the future and no way to retrieve the past, and death imposes a limit, so what is most important is this life, this moment."

Truman Capote, observing the 60-ish Katherine Anne Porter flirt with a handsome young man, is reported to have once remarked acidly that "the last thing that dies in a snake is the tail."

Roger Angell on baseball realignment: "Across Latin America and the Caribbean (and in parts of the Bronx) the game has lost none of its lustre. In Columbia, kids teams are now taking the field with every player bearing the identical number 16 on his back: Renteria's number. With baseball bottoming out on the charts in white suburbia, with diamonds everywhere giving way to mall and soccer fields, with very few African-Americans coming into the game (or into the stands: far less of them than one would have seen even before Jackie Robinson's time), this is the realignment that matters.

"There is a commonly held belief that thousands of years ago, as the world now counts time, Mongolian nomads crossed a land bridge to enter the Western Hemisphere and became known as the American Indians. The truth, of course, is that the Raven found our forefathers in a clamshell on the beach at Naikun. At his bidding they entered a world peopled by birds, beasts, and creatures of great power...At least that's a little bit of the truth."
Bill Reid, Haida Indian Tribe

"Man's most tormenting tragedy-the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy

V. S. Naipaul's advice to a former friend, whom he abandoned: "take it on the chin, and move on."

Timothy Leary: "Why not?"

Willim J. Brennan: "Death is an unusually severe degrading punishment; there is a strong possibility that it is inflicted arbitrarily;...and there is no reason to believe that it serves any penal purpose more effectively than the less severe punishment of imprisonment." AND "If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual ... to be free from unwanted governmental intrusions into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as whether to bear and beget a child."

William S. Burroughs: "That vile salamander Gingrich, the squeaker of the House, is slobbering about a drug-free America by the year 2001. What a dreary prospect! Of course, this does not include alcohol and tobacco, of which consumption will soar. How can a drug-free state be achieved? Simple. An operation to remove drug receptors from the brain. Those who refuse will be denied all rights. Landlords will refuse them housing, restaurants and bars will refuse them service. No passport, no Social Security, no medical coverage... Imagine the banality of a drug-free America. No dope fiends, just good clean-living, decent Americans from sea to shining sea. The entire area of dissent exorcised like a boil...How good will it be to have total conformity? What will be left of singularity? And personality? And you and me?

Name the 1972 movie with this review: "Lewd! Shameless! May God forgive its makers for concocting such a vulgar, offensive mess! And may audiences the world over be forever grateful." (Its one of my alltime favorites.)

Curt Flood 1938-1997; "I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes."

George Orwell, Feb, 1944:
"Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners."

"Differences of opinion should never mean hostility. If they did, my wife and I should be sworn enemies of one another. I do not know two persons in the world who had no difference of opinion, and as I am a follower of the Gita, I have always attempted to regard those who differ from me with the same affection as I have for my nearest and dearest." Gandhi

Roy Campanella

Armisted Maupin: "Christians are the only people on earth who kneel before an instrument of torture. If Christ had been martyred in this century, I guess we'd all be wearing little electric chairs around our necks."

Aharon Appelfeld: "A Jew in Europe was always in exile. Exile is never easy, but it produces a sense of detachment, & detachment has given the Jew the perspective of a high vantage point. It is no coincidennce that Jewish writers in Europe have been among the leaders in modern literature-Kafka, Proust, Babel, Schulz, Werfel, Broch, Celan & others."

Name the only country that has won a sprint medal at every Olympics since 1964. Click @ for the answer. (Author's note: I was chagrined to recently read that one of the major illicit steroid centers for athletes is located in the capital of this lovely country.) Clue: Remember,there were major Olympic boycotts in '80 & '84.

Albert Einstein:
"An individual who should survive his physical death is beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
Bob Marley:
"Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth; you don't know what life is worth;.......If you know what life is worth, you will look for your's on earth."
Allen Ginsberg: "America when will you be angelic
When will you take off your clothes....
America after all it is you and I who are perfect
Not the next world."
Carl Sagan: "The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's no good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."
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"These are prosperous times. To asssume, however, that a new era of permanently improved economic and financial performance has been attained is rather simplistic." Henry Kaufman

"Hear me, my chiefs; I am tired, my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

Professional Homepage of Mark Winograd

Frederico Fellini

Sandy Koufax

Arthur Ashe- "To achieve greatness: Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can." From Dennis Rodman- "If you want to have public sex, go do it in your car. Just don't do it in the park where everybody can see you." (And people say we lack role models.)

Rosa Parks

Leo Frank:
In 1913 Leo Frank, a northern Jew who had moved to Atlanta to manage a pencil factory, was accused of murdering a 14-year old girl named Mary Phagan, who was employed at the factory.

The story of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan, on one level the story of a murder, trial, and execution, can be seen on another level as a frightening example of the conflicts that developed out of the merging of the agrarian and urban cultures. At the turn of the century, poor farmers facing destitute conditions in the Georgia countryside began moving in large numbers to the cities. Urban entrepreneurs, seeing the need for jobs, looked to the North for capital and management to build factories.

After a sensationalized trial, Leo Frank was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. He was convicted primarily on the testimony of Jim Conley, a janitor who was initially suspected of the crime and who changed his story several times. As the jury walked to the courthouse, the crowd yelled: "Hang the Jew or we'll hang you!" Governor John Slaton commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment, but on August 16, 1915, 25 armed men took Frank out of jail and hanged him. Across the South for many years afterwards, little girls skipped rope to a new rhyme: "Little Mary Phegan went to work one day. Little did she know the Jew would take her life away."

To many, Frank was a symbol of the "foreign" exploiter making money from the labors of children. To others, he was a scapegoat for people's economic woes. The Frank case can be seen as an illustration of what happens when the world is changing too fast for some people who, since they cannot alter their circumstances, vent their frustration and anger on people or things that symbolize the change they cannot control.

Leo Durocher: "We're all working together. The players and the coaches and the writers. That way nobody makes anybody look bad." (Ed. note: Although Leo was talking about baseball, the same is true of the medical profession now. We all work together, the doctors, the nurses, the social workers, and that way nobody makes anybody look bad!)

"It is an extaordinary thing that the conscience of Europe which 70 years ago had put down the slave trade on humanitatian grounds tolerates the Congo State today. It is as if the moral clock has been put back..." Joseph Conrad, 1903
(Author's note: I realize that this is an obscure qoute; to appreciate this one must be both a Conrad fan and have an interest/knowledge of Central African history. Given the recent events in Zaire and RwandaI believe it is quite relevant.)

And there's me- playing my baseball game in the mud of the yard, draw a circle with a rock in the middle, for 3rd, for ss, for 2nd base, first, for outfield positions, and pitch ball in with little selfward flick, a heavy ballbearing bat is a big nail, whap, there's a grounder between the rock of 3rd base and ss, basehit into left because also missed rolling through infield circles- there's a flyball to left, plops into left field circle, he's out, I played this and hit such a long home-run it was incoceivable...it goes sailing across an intervening stadium, or yard, into the veritable suburbs of the mythical city locating the mythical ballfield - into the yard of the Phoebe Street house where we used to live -lost in the bushes- lost my ball...the whole league ended...a sinister end of the world home run had been hit. Jack Kerouac

"It takes a man to play major league baseball, but it takes a lot of little boy in the man. Once you put on the uniform, you become a kid again." Roy Campanella

"I say to John, ' I carried the baby for 9 months, and that's enough, so you take care of it afterward.' I believe children belong to the society." Yoko Ono (Yoko Ono was already an internationally known avante-garde artist when she met John Lennon while doing a one woman show at the Indica Gallery in London.)

"God made my body and if its dirty, then the imperfection lies with the Manufacturer, not the product. Do not remove this tag under penalty of law." Lenny Bruce

The Meaning of Life:

You wake up in the morning. You eat a little breakfast, maybe read the paper. You attempt to go to school if you're that age. If your teacher tells you to sit in a chair, you sit in a chair. If you don't feel like it, you do it anyway. You get older, the routine doesn't change. You eat breakfast, you go to work, you come home. If you're lucky enough you're married. If you're not, maybe you have a boyfriend or girlfriend. You yell at your wife, you make up with your wife. If your testicles feel right you might get laid. You watch a video you rented or maybe go out to the movies. Then you go home to your bedroom, you mellow out a little bit. If you're like the late Sam Kenison you take a schnapps. Then maybe a snack, have some strawberries and cream, and wash it down with a Snapple. Then you snore away for 8 hours, you wake up, and you do it all over again. Howard Stern

Gen. Paul Kagame of Rwanda felt that the "international community" had no understanding of the origin of the refugee crisis in the Congo. When he learned of US UN Ambassador Richardson's comments, he said, "Maybe somebody should slip it into the internet."

So here it is: "It is important to remember the humanitarian crisis in the Congo we all know so well did not begin in the last few months. This tragedy dates back to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The failure of the international community to respond adequately to both the genocide and the subsequent mixing of genocidal killers with the legitamate refugee population in the former Eastern Zaire only served to prolong the crisis. The climate of impunity was further exacerbated by ethnic cleansing and conflict in the Norh Kivu region - and also by former Pesident Mobutu's policies of allowing these genocidal forces to operate, recruit and resupply on his territory. Tragically, this chapter is not closed. Reports of widespread killings continue. All of us, the new government of the Congo, its neighbors, the international community have the responsibility to stop the killing of innocent civilians. We must also protect legitimate refugees, continuing repatriation efforts work to bring the genocidal killers to justice."

J. Danforth Quayle US Vice President

1. A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

2. For NASA, space is still a high priority. - 9/5/90

3 .When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be. (to local residents upon arriving in American Samoa)

Paul Bowles ended "Sheltering Sky" with: "The tram made a wide U-turn and stopped; it was the end of the line."

(The following is for baseball fans only.)

POLO GROUNDS

Time is of the essence. The rhythm break
More varied and subtle than any kind of dance;
Movement speeds up or lags. The ball goes out
In sharp and angular drives, or long slow arcs,
Comes in again controlled and under aim;
The players wheel or spurt, race, stoop, slide, halt,
Shift imperceptively to new positions,
Watching the signs according to the batter,
The score, the inning. Time is of the essence.
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Remember Bridwell, Tenney, Merkle, Youngs,
Chief Meyers, Big Jeff Tesrau, Shufflin' Phil?
Remember Methewson, Ames, Donli,
Buck Ewing, Rusie, Smiling Mickey Welch?
Remember a left-handed catcher named Jack
Humphries,
Who sometimes played the outfield, in '83?

Time is of the essence. The shadow moves
From the plate to the box, from the box to 2nd
base,
From 2nd to the outfield, to the bleachers.

Time is of the essence. The crowd and players
Are the same age always, but the man in the crowd
Is older every season. Come on, play ball! (Rolfe Humphries)