Industrialization Ponderer Gifts

'It's taking a core sample but it also took Herbie.'

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"What was I thinking?!"

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

Another Turning Point in the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Co. On second thought, let's put the cars on the conveyor belt.

"Tell me, Chuck, is barbarism the natural state of mankind, and will it ultimately triumph?"

'THAT'S the Holy Land? - You're kidding, right?'

"Cheer up, grod, these are the good old days."

The Politics of Food.

'It's nice but will it be a hedge against inflation.'

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

"Of course it sends your message digitally. If you want analogue we'll have to saddle up old Bessie."

Trumped

"Don't mention Pat Buchanan, pro or con."

'Don't mind me....I'll just sit here while you work on homeland security, unemployment, health care and your many other prbblems!'

A man holding a pro-life sign stands above a group of beaten people who are pro choice.

A Toxic-Waste-Think-Tank With Toxic-Thoughts.

Railway 'King' George Hudson

'Is it me or do these new led street lights wash out the reds and yellows?'

'Back in the industrial age, this was, I believe, a steel mill.'

'It's always so sad when they repossess.'

"The news lady says this bad guy was charged with assault...but he didn't have rifle. How's that possible?!"

Meet Larry; tenor, baritone, philosopher, social commentator, sport analyst, political expert, relationship expert … and A+ certified plumber.

"It's for weird minds - they're not wired like mine...oh! I'm a poet and didn't know it!"

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

Bertrand Russell

"One thing I'll say for us, Meyer--we never stooped to popularizing science."

'Is it politically correct to be more or less ashamed than usual of being English today?'

"What Caesar doesn't understand is that all politics is local!"

Addicted to Oil

Lotus Position: 'I'm a fiscal conservative, but a liberal on social issues and the environment...'

'Jeeves...Jeeves...'