Can't Be Brains

What do vegetarian Zombies eat?

Graaaiiins. Grrraaaaaiiinnss. Gggrraaaaaiiiiinnnnssss!

Francis Church's Affirmation

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS.

Williams' Snack Apology

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

- William Carlos Williams.

Nash On Righteousness

You're so full of what's right that you can't see what's good.
-N .Richard Nash

Fletcher On Calculating Love

A macabre tale is told of the god Moloch. He came down to earth to the premier of one of the new nations in Africa, with an offer: "I will provide you with a modern highway network if you will sacrifice 45,000 people to me every year." The premier, aghast, cried, "No! Not a single, solitary soul!" "Phooie," retorted Moloch, "that is what I get in the U.S.A. annually."

[...] It is sentimenal, simplistic, and romantically backward to "feel" that love cannot or ought not calculate[...]

- Joseph F. Fletcher, Situation Ethics