“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
 
–Martin Luther King Jr.
 

 
Babies haven’t any hair;
   Old men’s heads are just as bare;–
Between the cradle and the grave
   Lies a haircut and a shave.
 
–Samuel Hoffenstein

Take up the White Man’s burden—
    Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
    To serve your captives’ need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
    On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
    Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
    In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
    And check the show of pride;
By open speech [...]

 
Dear Abby:
You have often been asked where a single woman can meet a decent, eligible man.
I have a suggestion: Join a chess club. Women are always welcome. Furthermore, they will find that men outnumber women 10–1. Not bad odds. Also, from 25% to 40% of the men will be unmarried. Men who play chess on [...]

 
“My Jesu swet I go to mete
His body is my soles delete.
Always I rise from the glomby earth
When Jesu sucketh me with his swet mouth.”
 
–attributed to St. Dorothea of Montau, ca. 1390
Dorethea was an ascetic, flagellant, ecstatic visionary, immured alive in the walls of the Marienwerder Cathedral, Danzig (nee Gdansk).

 
THE PRISON CHESS PROGRAM sponsered by the National Chess Foundation has been actively helping jail inmates for over a decade now and has supplied them with thousands of chess sets, boards, clocks, books and magazines.
This remarkable humanitarian effort is primarily the accomplishment of one dedicated man, James R. Schroeder. Almost singlehandedly he has brought some [...]

 
Retributive justice is an archaic notion. The penal system in the United States is a national disgrace. Do not confuse humanity with sympathy for criminals. Mercy is the quality that separates man from beast.
Chess reduces recidivism.
The Isolanis Chess Club urges you to give generously to The Prison Chess Fund.
 Send check or money order payable to:
James [...]

 
“Talent without knowledge is wasted.” — James Schroeder
“Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true.” — Emanuel Lasker

 
“It is the function of the critic to bring into prominence that which is valuable, to correct that which is well meant but is weak, to speak with a loud voice against that which is pretentious and a sham.” — Emanuel Lasker
“The critic has only one obligation: to be correct.” — James Schroeder

“They do not bear arms, and do not know them…They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane…They would make fine servants…With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
–Christopher Columbus, from his log, regarding the Arawak Indians of the Bahama Islands.
When he arrived on Hispaniola in 1508, [...]