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In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world’s existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It’s almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create…
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley I would urge you to see the truth of your situation. That is my advice. It is not for me to say what you should have done. Or not done. I only know the world …
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially,…
I used to teach a writer’s workshop at the University of Iowa back in the 1960s, and I would say at the start of every semester, ‘The role model for this course is Vincent van Gogh—who sold two paintings to his brother.’ – Kurt Vonnegut Van Gogh is one of my sanity triggers. Whenever I…
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc.) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” Ginni Thomas quote-texted, adding: “I hope this is…
“I am interested in people and everything that pertains to them.” Apparently, Janet Sobel didn’t pose for many photographs. Others had no such problem. See the artist many in America blame for modern art, like those drip paintings look like a dyslexic chimp on crack went completely bananas. Reviews of Pollock’s show were mixed. Emily Genauer…
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I’d walk when cars passed me. I’d pretend I was looking at the flowers! – Joan Benoit Samuelson, First Woman Olympic Marathon Champion I’ll be honest, I thought I was listening to an audiobook narrated by a bunch of people I know. Don’t listen to podcasts,…
Who would run our motels, drive the cab or invent the next global-changing technology? – Barker Ajax As millions of people flee bombing in Ukraine, most media and political comment has been rightly sympathetic. But refugees from other parts of the world, like those escaping war in Syria or violence in Central America, are often…
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved. – Tom Wolfe Under my high school yearbook photo of a person I no longer recognize,…
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. – Noam Chomsky From Charlie Sykes at The Bulwark This is what a war crime looks like, but by now we are familiar with them, because Putin is committing them daily on an industrial scale. Yesterday, President Biden merely stated the obvious when he called Putin a…