Semonides (late seventh century B.C.,) appears to have been a man of rather dour mood, but is words cut straight to the heart of the matter, even if the span of centuries between us means that what I infer from his words might not be what he intended.

From "The Darkness of Human Life":

A Thousand blackspirits waylay man with unending grief and suffering. If you listen to my counsel, you won't want the good things of life; nor batter your heart by torturing your skull with cold remorse.

From "Life and Death":

Later we will have a long time to lie dead yet the few years we have now we live badly.

And Finally from "Brevity of Life":

Poor fools! in islands of illusion, for men have but a day of youth and life. You few who understand, know when death is near the food you give your soul must be supreme.

Links:
Politics 1 interviews quixotic candidate for 2008 Democratic nomination, Mike Gravel (Scroll down a bit)

At least one-half of Woodward/Bernstein is still questioning the motives of the powers that be. An excellent Vanity Fair piece. (via Daily Kos)

From Cynical-C Blog, cool video of an octopus changing colors.

The height of cool: Sinatra and Presley duet in the late 1950s. Sadly, about twenty years later they would both be caricatures of this.