11-19-2021, 04:11 PM
(11-19-2021, 03:37 PM)Minstrel Wrote: Considering how much news they have to overlook and censor, its amazing they get anything published nowadays.
The key is in the spin-up. You don't have to censor it if you can spin it in the right direction!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’