Another highly appropriate quote on politics
27 AprThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Sound like anyone we all know (and don’t love)?
Marx on Politics… Not Karl, Groucho
27 AprPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Somehow this seemed especially appropriate.
War is peace?
27 AprGeorge W. Bush, June 18, 2002
“War is Peace”
George Orwell in “1984“
Credit “Impeach for Peace“.
Pay it forward
26 AprI’m sure you have heard of the concept of “pay it forward”. The idea is to repay an act of kindness by a similar act of kindness to another unrelated person in need at some future time. It dovetails nicely with the “Threefold Law”, and is something I have always tried to do, even before I ever heard of either concept. Then there is the Golden Rule I was taught as an infant.
But do you know where the specific “pay it forward” concept originated? Probably not where you think. Neither the movie nor the the book by that name was the original source.
The earliest reference to the actual phrase “pay it forward” of which I am aware is in a book by Robert Heinlein titled Between Planets, originally published in 1951.
The Nation: Nuclear Madness
25 AprNuclear Madness
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
I like this quote, a lot. It really says it for me.
“… all the while the charge is led by a little man/would-be cowboy with a messianic vision who finds himself at the helm of the most powerful nation in history. …”
