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“What is unfolding is unacceptable and un-American. It has got to stop.” – Kevin McCarthy. 4:01 PM · Jan 6, 2021 I live in MAGA country. My neighbors fly flags like FUCK BIDEN and TRUMP 2024: THE REVENGE TOUR. Newsweek called Liz Cheney’s speech to Congress as a “deviant diatribe against Donald Trump.” I call…
Some life is only life, and unconjugatable, just as to some questions there are no answers. – Richard Ford Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Borrow money from pessimists, they don’t expect it back. Half the people you know are below average. A conscience…
“I don’t paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn’t bother about things like that.” Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity….
On a traffic light, green means ‘go’ and yellow means ‘yield’, but on a banana, it’s just the opposite. Green means ‘hold on,’ yellow means ‘go ahead,’ and red means, ‘where the hell did you get that banana at?’ – Mitch Hedberg She was not Completely A loose woman. She thought of herself As rather…
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. – Carl Sagan Drip. Drip, drip. Drip, drip, drip, drip. The sound of official stupidity in a land called Florida. Drip, drip….
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. – Robert W. Service It was the tenth grade, I think. Pretty sure it was Mrs. Westerholm, who was giving an English test. We had been tasked with memorizing The Cremation of Sam McGee. A shorter poem, I…
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. – Thomas Jefferson I do yard work, mostly for the exercise. Wife and I just this morning standing in the garden about to straighten a wooden tiki sculpture and I saw a snake skin. Wife says, well, watch out, which I thought was silly until this…
“Certain forms float up in my mind’s eye. Aromas, a blowing breeze, a rain drenched gust of wind, the air in motion, my heart in motion. I try to capture these vague, evanescent images of the instant and put them into vivid form.” March is Women’s History month and I saw this obituary of a…
“No. I don’t believe in hope. I believe in action. “If I’m an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, “but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.” So, I was watching an HBO documentary “Black Art: In The Absence Of Light.” (https://blackartonhbo.com/) And this one particular artist – quietly…
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don’t always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented. – Adam Kinzinger I don’t agree with the Congressman about much of anything. Except we both know a treasonous insurrection when we see one. Slow-moving or not. Around the corner from where the…