If a disordered desk signifies a disordered mind, what does an empty desk signify?


Don’t take this too seriously. It’s just a bit of fun.

William F. Buckley’s Desk…

William F. Buckley's desk

And Nat Hentoff’s Desk…
Nat Hentoff's desk

And Albert Einstein’s Desk…
Albert Einstein's desk

And Barack Obama’s Desk…
Barack Obama's desk

Have a better caption than the one I put in the title? Let’s have a caption contest in the comments.

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My mom - God rest her - had a sign......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 2:41PM EDT (link)

“A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.”

The images of that thing are on the web somewhere, but I have a feeling most people here at RS would like this one better – It’s a book:

;)

Pretty good

Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 2:45PM EDT (link)

I guess you were talking about the little sign to the left of this monitor.

Funny…

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

–Alexander Hamilton

Something like that.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 2:55PM EDT (link)

But it also had a line drawing of a desk with a freaked out guy, spread-eagled on the desktop.

She had another small sign too:

“I’m not fat, I’m just short for my weight.”

;)

 
 
 

Its comforting as I strive to protect my personal property

nessa (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 3:11PM EDT (link)

…from government redistribution, to see that I possess the same cleanliness characteristics as William F Buckley. “Lunch receipts? They’re in the tall pile, 3rd from the left on the bookshelf.” This also gives me a good excuse to leave it that way after I file.

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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The Obama desk photo was obviously doctored by the right wing hate machine because...

streetwise (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 3:51PM EDT (link)

there’s no vacation planner on it, and the golf magazines have been filed away.

Re: Right Wing Hate Machine

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:11PM EDT (link)

Just wait ’til I start using my ninja moves….

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

 

How much research is involved in voting "present" ?

acat (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:15PM EDT (link)

A clean desk is a sign that no research is going on… and by extension, that it’s all just being phoned in at this point…

Mew

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self-portrait

Caveat Suffragator

 
 

ROFLMAO

Black River Wolf (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 3:57PM EDT (link)

Those look cleaner than my room..

I am amazed at all the books and junk that collects, which reminds me I need to find a few books I need to read.

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—-John Adams

Books tumbled all over the room are a sure sign of a reader

Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:00PM EDT (link)

I clean mine up every once in a while.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

–Alexander Hamilton

One reason I've gone toward eBooks...

acat (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:14PM EDT (link)

Only one (bloody expensive) thing to lose, instead of stacks and stacks to shelve.

Mew

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self-portrait

Caveat Suffragator

LOL

Black River Wolf (Diary) Thursday, February 17th at 11:24AM EDT (link)

I got the Nook app for my phone and also a couple other ebook readers. just have not bought anything for it, just downloaded a couple free books

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—-John Adams

Gotta save money somewhere, Wolf. [nt]

acat (Diary) Thursday, February 17th at 12:51PM EDT (link)

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self-portrait

Caveat Suffragator

 
 
 
 
 

You can tell a Yankee skipper

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:30PM EDT (link)

Buckley is in a sweater and shorts, can’t see the shoes but bet they are Docksiders…The last friend I had to visit my office said “Gad, man”. Now I feel better.

and the thing is

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:46PM EDT (link)

he read every damn one of those books.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Or wrote them

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 4:47PM EDT (link)
 

I keep the door to my office closed.

Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, February 17th at 1:45PM EDT (link)

Otherwise dogs get in or something falls out.

Buffett Rule #1: “Tax rates don’t matter if you don’t pay your taxes”
– Unnamed tax adviser to Warren Buffett, Leavenworth, KS, 2011
Buffett Rule #2: “A parrot in every pot and two Volts in every garage”– Jimmy Buffett, at a seance in Margaritaville, 1977

 
 

An empty desk...

belcatar (Diary) Wednesday, February 16th at 5:39PM EDT (link)

If a disordered desk signifies a disordered mind, then an empty desk signifies a coming job opening.

 

"Two kinds of reflection" (nt)

blooch Thursday, February 17th at 11:44AM EDT (link)

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

OMG! He creates no reflection.

Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, February 17th at 1:47PM EDT (link)

Only his clothes do.

And so that’s what is meant by an empty suit.

Buffett Rule #1: “Tax rates don’t matter if you don’t pay your taxes”
– Unnamed tax adviser to Warren Buffett, Leavenworth, KS, 2011
Buffett Rule #2: “A parrot in every pot and two Volts in every garage”– Jimmy Buffett, at a seance in Margaritaville, 1977