Orts #861

Since 1970, more Americans have lost their lives to guns... (1.45 million), than in all the wars in US history (1.4 million).
     — Nicholas Kristof, in the N.Y.Times, Jan.31, 2018.


This year, 1.2 trillion digital photos will be taken worldwide, and most of those—85 percent—will be taken on phones...  
     — http://bit.ly/2s9WyK0


Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

     — both, Francis Picabia (1879-1953)


If Emily Dickinson’s name had been Misty,
Would she have gotten so much publicity?
     — from a poem, Publicity, in O, What a Luxury, by Garrison Keillor