Archive For April 29, 2019
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And then it got worse and I got madder still. More madder. Like Howard Beale in “Network.” That was 1976. Ironically perhaps, the USA’s bi-centennial. Never gonna be a tricentennial the rate we’re going. But that’s okay, I’ll be dead. – JDW “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are…
Sometimes I feel a little like Forrest Gump. Managed to be in the right place at the right time when something historic was going down. Once or twice. Of course, sometimes they tell you where it’s gonna happen and when. And all I had to do was show up. The first women’s USA Olympic Marathon…
There are means to prevent crime – it’s punishment – and there are means to change manners – it’s good examples. – Montesquieu I answered that perfectly. Nobody saw me. No witnesses. No notes. It’s not against the law. If it was against the law, I didn’t know. Most people say I know more than…
I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness,…
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. – Abraham Lincoln Many people and countless FBI agents have contacted me about why I am supporting Mayor Pete in 2020. Ask yourself some questions. Is Mike Pence, that silver fox, afraid to be alone in a room with Pete…
Bill McKibben On Just How Scary These Times Are The Writer And Climate Activist Talks About His New Book ‘Falter’ And How The Human Race Got Itself Into Such A Big Mess By Christopher Keyes for Outside magazine. It’s a big claim, but it’s probably accurate to say that no American has done more to sound the…
They woke up to screams. Outside, a dingo had their toddler. Michael Brice-Saddler, The Washington Post (4/20/19) A family’s camping trip to Fraser Island in northeastern Australia was interrupted early Friday by the cries of their 14-month-old child – a disturbance that is not uncommon in households with toddlers. But the boy’s parents made an…
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. ―…
What fucks you up most in life is this picture we all have in our heads about how shit is supposed to be. Pardon my French. – Barker Ajax “I don’t want to earn my living,” Oscar Wilde said. “I want to live.” Pulitzers came out. I didn’t win again. Same with the Guggenheim. Practically…
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. – 1 John 4:20 4/20. [From 2019] Second only to Groundhog’s Day, my favorite holiday has to be April 20th….