Quote of the Day

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three
So oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV?

–Janis Joplin (with an assist from Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth)

Author: Keith Humphreys

Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at Kings College London. His research, teaching and writing have focused on addictive disorders, self-help organizations (e.g., breast cancer support groups, Alcoholics Anonymous), evaluation research methods, and public policy related to health care, mental illness, veterans, drugs, crime and correctional systems. Professor Humphreys' over 300 scholarly articles, monographs and books have been cited over thirteen thousand times by scientific colleagues. He is a regular contributor to Washington Post and has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), Times Higher Education (UK), Crossbow (UK) and other media outlets.

6 thoughts on “Quote of the Day”

  2. Life magazine just republished its issue on the Kennedy assassination. RCA Victor advertises its lowest price color TV ever for only $450. OTOH, a Maidenform bra goes for $2.50. In 1963, $450 was real dough.

    1. To be precise, according to The Inflation Calculator on the Internet, “What cost $450 in 1963 would cost $3329.79 in 2012.” And the bra would cost $18.50 in 2012.

    1. What do you expect when you read a website where the “hot new movie you must see” is typically a half century or more old!

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