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A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ― George Orwell The proposed law, often referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, bans public school districts from “encouraging” classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity. State Rep. Joe Harding, a Republican who introduced the bill into the…
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. – Markus Zusak I hurt. Say that the same way I say, I am tall. Well aware many people are taller. Started decades and decades ago. Just thought that was part of my job as the World’s Slowest Professional…
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. – Ray Bradbury “It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink…
“Then I see the disinfectant which knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside for almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check…
JUNE 18,1990. This is a project I’m not working on. The Porno King of the Pacific Northwest liked my style, so he hired me to come over to his bunkered office in SE Portland and drink whiskey and shoot the shit about a movie he wanted to make. I was supposed to write the script….
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.”― John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By Overcast. Cloudy. Gray. I filled the gas tank in case there’s a war….
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. – Covert Bailey Somewhere there is a semblance of an article about a fitness conference in Reno, Nevada and I somehow got…
A quilt of many colors. White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. Greetings from behind the Red Curtain. When cable news…
I’m Invited to a Destination Wedding at a Plantation. What Do I Do? I can almost understand why the Citrus County Board of Commissioners refuses to fund a subscription to The New York Times. Impressionable children and uninformed voters might read it and not be able to defend their minds against the socialist propaganda gushing…
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. – Ms. Unknown If one is to think about this past year, randomly the best I can offer. Decided to let the frog living in my hot tub to…