Archive For May 14, 2019
1.*_ My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE_*. ‘If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.’ 2.*_ My mother taught me RELIGION_*. ‘You better pray that will come out of the carpet.’ 3.*_ My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL_*. ‘If you don’t wise…
She was a piece of work, Norma Jean – just like Monroe – Moore Welch. The wife and I, oh, how Mom loved the wife and ain’t that great truly, will catch a phrase and think of her. “I don’t like jelly beans.” “It was very nice, thank you. We won’t be back.” “Yes, it’s…
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. – H.L. Mencken Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez….
‘You’re alone and you know a few things.’ I just know that I am that good. – Thomas Lux Somewhere near Phoenix, I came out off the desert turned right onto a small paved road before we hit the main street that headed into town where the entire population awaited my arrival. I was a…
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. – Clarence Darrow The history behind this beautiful celebration of Mexican-American culture. from Amanda Green at yourtango.com Even if you don’t speak Spanish, you probably know what Cinco de Mayo means in English … May 5. But while the name of this Mexican-American…
Don’t take criticism from people you wouldn’t take advice from. – Jeff Van Gundy Did you really benefit from…? Daylight Savings Time. Ancestry.com. Facebook. Turns out I am a white man with no friends. Slam dunk intelligence about WMDs in Iraq. How’d that go? Friends like this. The Saudis took from us both the World…
Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive this president. By James Comey. Former F.B.I. director. People have been asking me hard questions. What happened to the leaders in the Trump administration, especially the attorney general, Bill Barr, who I have said was due the benefit of the doubt? How could…
Oh! That we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees. – Charles Kingsley Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,With sudden passion languishing,Maketh all things softly smile,Painteth pictures mile on mile,Holds a cup…
All furnished, all in arms; All plum’d like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May. And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.” – William Shakespeare May Day by American…