Archive For April 30, 2022
The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few. – Reni Eddo-Lodge I rip out magazine articles I want to read when time allows. Found this…
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt I have been married three times. Not like I am a coward. And not like I don’t wish to taste newer and richer…
“These are the people we are up against. Progressive social media trolls like Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Snowflake) who are outraged they can’t teach, can’t groom and sexualize kindergartners or that 8-year-olds are responsible for slavery,” Lana Theis‘ campaign e-mail. Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow responded in a swell speech – which almost made me cry…
“Every other male engaged in selling beer, and the rest of the men, women, and children consume it.” The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21,1855 in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist politician, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 per year to…
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed I have a great deal of knowledge about drugs, and not necessarily how you might think. Not unnecessarily either. My degree of expertise seemed kinda funny when I married a Drug Court Administrator. Felt less weird after she…
Boswell’s elaborate self-examination makes him a prime modern case of those who believe that fame and recognition will satisfy their desires to be complete, “uniform,” and filled with character, only to discover that nothing is really sufficient to satisfy the hunger within. You have probably never heard of Professor Leo Braudy. He is the unknown…
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to…
My dad raised me to believe we are what we accomplish, that what matters isn’t who we are, but what we do. He said we’re all paper cups, disposable and replaceable, that the work we contribute to the world is what we hold in our cups, that the work we do is what we’re worth….
Second only to suffering, waiting may be the greatest teacher and trainer in godliness, maturity, and genuine spirituality most of us ever encounter. – Richard Hendrix Arrived here for a good reason, stayed by accident, partnered by harmonious matrimony, corralled by coincidence, tethered by impecunity. Barker Ajax had long thought of himself secreted in Federal…
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…