—Ernest Benn (1875–1954)
Benn was a British writer and publisher. His father, John Benn, was a politician, and so was his nephew, Tony Benn.
You may have heard this quote attributed to Groucho Marx, but there is no evidence he ever wrote or said it. And if he did, he was probably paraphrasing Benn.
Another Bennism: “Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.”
(Photo via the Great Thoughts Treasury, c1947)
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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