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“The girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump. Even if their face is a 7, their body is a 20.” – Breaux Greer, American javelin thrower. Saw this book and I sent a fan letter to the author. I’d buy…
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On January 13, 1904, a mob of white people lynched a Black man known as General Lee in Reevesville, South Carolina, for…
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. – Naval Ravikant 20 Quotes for a Mindfully Happy & Healthy New Year! By Athena Staik, Ph.D. Happiness is more than getting what you want. A happy and healthy New Year begins with you. It’s…
“Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” – Stephen King, It A quick thought experiment. Instead of talking about the routine slaughter of innocent children and our fellow citizens in schools, banks, nightclubs, and grocery stores. Movie theaters, fitness centers, bowling alleys. Parades. Imagine we were talking about Islamic terrorist attacks. Hezbollah. Hamas. Imagine there…
I haven’t seen the movie, but I read the book. And I have studied some history. The Sooner State was settled by cheaters, that’s how it got its name. Rules don’t conquer territory. During the early 20th century, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma were systematically murdered by white settlers. Yet outside the Osage…
Yet another gift catalog shows up in the mail. And the catalog is filled with a bunch of stuff you don’t need. Signs, t-shirts, pillows, magnets, placards. But many of them inscribed with wisdom you DO need. Life’s journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body but rather to…
“If you are a colossal fan of epic poetry serving up a metaphorical tour of the Collapse of Western Civilization and have ever seen an actual boner with your own eyes, maybe even touched one…” here Barker Ajax stopped. A Promethean quest to grow the male member leaves some men desperate and disfigured. THEY WANTED…
We are now in a post-fact world. I can’t even talk to a lot of friends and family members and people I care so much about and I have for my whole life. It was never this bad. How did it get this bad? – Joe Scarborough It’s alway been this bad. Almost came to…
morning grasswater hardens and garbage cans fall silent. The bees bury their own. October 16, 1974 Flagstaff, Arizona USA
Being himself, however, really meant not just a Jew or just an American but both and neither…. An exile, he sits down by the waters of Manhattan to weep; a wry smile comes over his face, for he realizes that he is home. And then he really weeps. – L.S. Dembo Charles Reznikoff was born in…