Archive For May 17, 2020
No! If you’re gonna kill the cow, I don’t wanna hear the rest of the story! – Mortimer Snerd I know how his mind works. Donald insists on firing a different Inspector General every Friday night, one at a time, because he believes this way the Lame Stream Media won’t be able to call his…
Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask and ask for money. Well, I could, but that’s just me. I was happily married before this damn pandemic crap. Old buddies, I’ve known them a long time and they are also aged, send me…
Rich people march on Washington every day. – I.F. Stone Is Cable News The Problem? Is It The Press? I spend huge portions of my day just with this feeling of being hit in the chest by watching the utter blitheness and disregard, and casualness, and sociopathic casualness, about the vast losses. They’re not far…
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens – Khalil Gibran What to Do With the Sadness You’re Feeling Right Now Grief therapist David Kessler on mourning the world we’ve lost and the therapeutic value of screaming in the car. BY PHILLIP PICARDI for GQ May 12, 2020 We are surrounded by death. This is, on…
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Joe Klaas Angry at the world but what other emotion makes as much sense?
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” “Gentlemen,” he was…
“There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.“ Henry Darger was the preeminent outsider artist of the twentieth century. So I’ve been led to believe. Just finished Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy by Jim Elledge. Henry had a hard life and he made art. He wasn’t crazy, he was different. He…
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. – James Faust One winter morning, a Friday not so long ago, my mother was discovered dead in her recliner. The television played on. Know she died the night before. Watching ‘Jeopardy.’ Vana probably turned the first letter and Mom hollered…
Greetings from Trump country during the Trump pandemic. All about the branding. Donald said about Covid-19 – he was warned a dozen or more times -“Nobody could’ve seen this coming.” A phrase I’ve been using sarcastically as thousands of Americans die daily as a result of his mismanagement. Like injecting disinfectant. Nobody could’ve seen this…
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln * Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong. * Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance. * Life is simpler when you plow around…