When I check hits in 20th century, suspectly many refer to United Negro College Fund; I mention it not for origin but for each occurrence that has that reference since I consider such occurences non-proverb ones, e.g. What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. When Kojima’s two former wives saw the photograph of their ex with the President, they pleaded with Bush to give them some of the money, owed in back child support. Newsom orders 2035 phaseout of gas-powered vehicles, calls for fracking ban. Her columns appear on Wednesday and Sunday. Op-Ed: Democrats have a secret weapon to thwart a rapid Ginsburg replacement. In spring, 1990, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, only half the 5 million women who were awarded child support in 1989 received full payment. Twitter: @AbcarianLAT, There’s a pandemic, but Southern California home prices are at record levels. know that some things are good, and other things are wrong,” said Quayle on Tuesday. California would be the first U.S. state to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars. “I think most of us . Editorial: Goodbye and good riddance to gas-powered cars, What you need to know about California’s ‘zero emissions’ order. Far be it from GOP officials to do the right thing on principle. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. And damned, I guess, for having sex in the first place. His judgmental little riff on Murphy’s immorality--so typical of the Bush Administration view that women are incapable of making their own reproductive decisions--would have been a nice segue into a demand for authorities to do a better job collecting child support from errant fathers. “It doesn’t help when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown--a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman--mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it ‘just another lifestyle choice.’ ”. It’s not that I wanted Murphy Brown to have an abortion. Once again, our intrepid vice president is in front of the pack with his inspiringly insipid social analysis: In a San Francisco speech Tuesday, Quayle blamed the Los Angeles riots on Murphy Brown’s execrable decision to bear a child out of wedlock. This one was far more conventional as a Christian believer than Baldwin, and a very different figure, a very different personality. Lack of child support is clearly linked to the impoverishment of single-parent families. The Southern California median home price rose 12% in August, as people took advantage of rock-bottom interest rates amid the COVID-19 outbreak. In the absence of that concern, politicians should butt out of family planning decisions. I am speaking of Frederick Douglass Patterson. How true that is.--Dan Quayle in a speech to the United Negro College Fund, May, 1989 What a waste it is to lose one's mind. But his contributions were magnificent and his wisdom was substantial. . If Republicans insist on replacing Ginsburg before a new president is in place, Democrats should vow to expand the court should they win the Senate and White House. A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. It’s time for serious reform to preserve our democracy. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. The district attorney’s office, which is charged with enforcement, has been criticized by the task force for finding only 17,300 of those deadbeat parents, or about one in 14. . Instead, he heaps the “lifestyle choice” insults on women, who can’t win. Lesser minds would not have seen the link. Give Dan Quayle a list of the 10 most moronic things to say and push him out the White House door every morning? . The following information passed a request for deletion. bd2412 T 18:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC), Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary, google books:"a mind is a terrible thing to waste", https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:a_mind_is_a_terrible_thing_to_waste&oldid=49608996, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. How true that is. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. Ideally, birth control is a mutual decision, one for which a couple shares equal responsibility.

It’s simply astonishing that he condemns an affluent, employed television character--and, by extension, anyone like her--for having a baby out of wedlock. One quarter received partial support and the rest got nothing. Indeed, every time a show opts for abortion, the networks lose money--ABC did with “China Beach” in 1990; NBC did with the movie “Roe Vs. Wade” in 1989. Quayle also remarked that the poverty rate for families headed by single mothers is six times higher than the poverty rate for families headed by married couples. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. Last month, in recognition of his largess, Kojima sat with Bush at the “President’s Dinner,” which raised $9 million for GOP congressional candidates. Frankly, I thought an abortion would have been more in character. Quayle’s speech also would have been a terrific opportunity for the GOP to announce it would return some or all of the half-million dollars recently contributed to the party by California businessman/deadbeat dad Michael Kojima.