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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…
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. – Jack Handey Dear Momma & Papa – Summer Camp is so exciting. Apparently a gentleman dove into the lake and had a heart attack and died. Pretty scary, actually, diving…
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me. – Sojourner Truth Attn: Florida’s School Children. “Ain’t I a Woman?” was spoken…
I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast. – Judge Judy Toy or drug. You be the judge? Surprising confusion. And I say that as a law school dropout who suffers from beneficial lycanthropy. What follows is not satire. This is an actual New York Times report on the real United States Supreme Court…
“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.” – Kevin McCarthy. January 13, 2021 The narrative last night ignores tens of thousands of pages of court filings and the tonnage of footage already released by the Justice Department…
embrace – verb – ɪmˈbreɪs – to willingly and enthusiastically accept, adopt, and espouse International Women’s Day 2023. Wednesday, March 8 Susan B. Anthony was a political activist and an advocate of women’s rights. After the Civil War, she fought for the 14th Amendment that was meant to grant all naturalized and native-born Americans citizenship in the…