Earlier Still

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
—  George Bernard Shaw
[And, a Happy 91st Birthday to my mom!  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2017	Ten To Go
2016	Unstable Emergence
2015	88
2014	Some One-Liners Are Too Easy
2013	Greatness
2012	Memories Of Arlington
2011	Wake Up

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Oh, Heaven (Too)

I do not myself believe that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
—  Bertrand Russell
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.  For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
—  Isaac Asimov
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On This Day In:
2017	Now Pausing Makes Sense
2016	Just Spicy
	Only One Part
2015	Positive Acts Of Creation
2014	One Thing Is Clear
2013	Corrections
	See Greatness
2012	Gemutlichkeit
2011	Back On The Asphalt

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Dog-gone Heaven

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
—  Will Rogers
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