Poor Sarah Palin

Today: Queen Elizabeth I was born on this day in 1533.

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists primarily in dealing with men." -- Joseph Conrad.

Yesterday: The first Pilgrims set sail for the new world on Sept. 6, 1620.

"There is no such thing as an American. They are all exiles uprooted, transplanted and doomed to sterility." -- Evelyn Waugh.

The Devil didn't make me do it

Novelist Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim) was born on this day in 1857.

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary," he wrote. "Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."