ON CRACKPOTS *********************************** In a recent issue of TIME magazine there is an interview with Andre Agassi in which Armenians and massacres are not mentioned. * The best thing Saroyan ever said about the Genocide is that he felt sorry for the Turks. * Now you may understand why I refer to Genocide ghazetajis, Hai Tahd activists and fund-raisers as Turcocentric crackpots. * There is a baloney artist in all politicians and ours are no exception. # THREE MAXIMS *************************** Thinking against oneself is one of the cardinal virtues. * Politicians and honesty are mutually exclusive concepts. * To believe when you are right you have God and Truth on your side is to be a potential assassin and terrorist. # READING BETWEEN THE LINES ******************************************** We all have our share of limitations with one difference: some of us are infatuated with them. Erasmus of Rotterdam was right when he said: “Everyone loves the smell of his own sh*t.” * The need to be understood always exceeds the need to understand. * Where lawyers and politicians enter, injustice and lies are sure to follow. * Never contradict a politician or a lawyer: remember, they are professionals. * To my anti-American friends from the Middle East I say: “I agree with you provided you also agree with me when I say the rest of the world is no better.” * Nobody ever said to be an honest man among crooks comes without a price. * I don’t always like or agree with what I say but once I put down 2+2= I have no choice but to say 4. # READERS ************************* There is a type of reader (and I have my share of them) who is programmed to disagree and reject anything that is not recycled propaganda. Such a reader doesn’t even bother or begin to understand what’s being said. He just hangs a label on you and forever after identifies you as the lowest form of animal life – namely, an Armenian who doesn’t love all Armenians and hate all Turks. Such a reader is convinced anyone who has more power or money must know better. He is Bolshevik in his pragmatism, capitalist in his value system, and Catholic in his dogmatism. # Reply, Reply All or Forward | More    Wine                          ON CRACKPOTS *********************************** In a recent issue of TIME magazine there is an interview with Andre Agassi in which Armenians and massacres are not mentioned. * The best thing Saroyan ever said about the Genocide is that he felt sorry for the Turks. * Now you may understand why I refer to Genocide ghazetajis, Hai Tahd activists and fund-raisers as Turcocentric crackpots. * There is a baloney artist in all politicians and ours are no exception. # THREE MAXIMS *************************** Thinking against oneself is one of the cardinal virtues. * Politicians and honesty are mutually exclusive concepts. * To believe when you are right you have God and Truth on your side is to be a potential assassin and terrorist. # READING BETWEEN THE LINES ******************************************** We all have our share of limitations with one difference: some of us are infatuated with them. Erasmus of Rotterdam was right when he said: “Everyone loves the smell of his own sh*t.” * The need to be understood always exceeds the need to understand. * Where lawyers and politicians enter, injustice and lies are sure to follow. * Never contradict a politician or a lawyer: remember, they are professionals. * To my anti-American friends from the Middle East I say: “I agree with you provided you also agree with me when I say the rest of the world is no better.” * Nobody ever said to be an honest man among crooks comes without a price. * I don’t always like or agree with what I say but once I put down 2+2= I have no choice but to say 4. # READERS ************************* There is a type of reader (and I have my share of them) who is programmed to disagree and reject anything that is not recycled propaganda. Such a reader doesn’t even bother or begin to understand what’s being said. He just hangs a label on you and forever after identifies you as the lowest form of animal life – namely, an Armenian who doesn’t love all Armenians and hate all Turks. Such a reader is convinced anyone who has more power or money must know better. He is Bolshevik in his pragmatism, capitalist in his value system, and Catholic in his dogmatism. #