Catching up with my email inbox that flooded while I was away last week, I notice a new breed of SPAM eliding the filters. There are no indications of products in these email; they simply include odd quotes from famous people. I must say, there's part of me that delights in receiving words from Nietzsche and Sartre in my SPAM. But there’s something unnerving about reading in a SPAM that famous Churchill notion about conservativism – is the Bush cadre sending these out? The leftists ought to think about utilizing SPAM in their campaigns this year (send out the earlier words of Denis Diderot that contradict Churchill’s so-called wisdom, for example). Imagine that!

Anyway, for your amusement, here’s a sampling of my inbox:

Subject: still growing yellowknife miscellaneous
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Any man who is under 30; and is not a liberal; has not heart; and any man who is over 30; and is not a conservative; has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Subject: life is better now darwin bear
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

Subject: except for me depressor blizzard
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who dont have it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

If everything seems under control youre just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

Subject: if only you had hinduism gherkin
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Subject: why arent you brooklyn jugging
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

Friends may come and go; but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

Subject: now her friends are rilly inaccurate
Everything has been figured out except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

Subject: its way better now selves barberry
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

Everywhere I go Im asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough of them. - Flannery OConnor (1925-1964)