Archive For The “Odds & Ends” Category
Not sure all these White Christian Jihadists – bent on regime change at home – are going to be as happy with authoritarianism as they think they are. – Barker Ajax The Ginni Thomas Supreme Court this morning took away a woman’s right to physical autonomy. As if the rape itself was somehow insufficient. When…
History is written by the winner, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history. – Bill Barr When I first learned about the Old West, it was the 1950s. When America was great and beatniks roamed the earth. My grandparents were born in the 1800s and so it was possible to hear true stories…
Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to achieve different results’. He was a clever chap, that Einstein fella. And, according to him, I must have been insane. Because I kept on working hard, and I kept on expecting to be rewarded, even though my hard…
Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and they’re giving — our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that. – Kellyanne Conway The flags started going up more than a couple of years ago and I did not like it. Even if I agreed with the ideology,…
The past is what you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. – Harold Pinter This seems a good time for a flashback in case your memory, like most Americans, has gotten hazy. Remember Auqilino Gonell, the U.S. Capitol sergeant who testified about the attack on January 6? “My fellow officers and I were…
Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity. – Michael K. Williams Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t…
They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They’d both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They’d both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished. – Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?…
What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to…
Imagine you have an intelligence that can’t be accurately measured by standardized testing. Yeah, I’ll go with that. – Barker Ajax So, anyway, if you have been following the news closely, the Florida state Department of Education recently rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks submitted by publishers. The books did not comply with its Benchmarks for Excellent…
The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the due process clause of the 14th Amendment….That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned by the Constitution, but any such right must…