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The fact is, artists have always been propagandists. I have no use for artists who try to divorce themselves from the struggle. I obviously already celebrated Charles White in Art Class #14. I am forgetful and disorganized and Mr. White is certainly deserving of multiple celebrations. Party on. – JDW Charles White’s commitment to creating…
and I am waitingfor the lost music to sound againin the Lost Continentin a new rebirth of wonder – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Cut it open right down the middle, skull to ass turns out QAnon is powered by three overlapping elements: sex trafficking panic, apocalyptic far-right militarism, tech monopoly. Three. None of these exclusively twenty-first–century phenomena….
Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. – JFK No new wars overseas, someone bragged, without noting a civil war has begun at home. And the more things change, the more they remain the same. John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961…
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’ The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’ Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not…
I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder….
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. – Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway I know…
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – Andre Gide Got into an “argument” on social media with a guy I sorta know. Young fellow, I am sure I have him by four decades or more. We worked together on the 2010 census. He’s bright, in a couple of meanings of…
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. – Charles M. Schulz If I woke up in the morning and nothing hurt, I would think I was dead. My body is a temple. Ancient and crumbling,…
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. – JFK If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity….
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. – George Orwell So the virus is a hoax and the election is a fraud and Trump is manly. Also the victim. Is that your story???