These are not the “end times.” And even if they were, that’s no excuse to give up on trying to make this world a better place.
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Never mind where I got the quote …
13 JulLaugh at the rules, let yourself daydream, agree with your imagination, color outside the lines.
Quote of the random time period
23 May“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.” – Richard Bach
Quote for the Day
2 AprI must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Dissent, and the unacceptability of thought
18 SepOlbermann Video: Bush owes us an apology
Yes, he does. He owes the entire United States an apology for suggesting that it is unacceptable to think anything. Allow me to direct you once again to the words of Historian Howard Zinn: Continue reading
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 Apr“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
“War is Peace”
George Orwell in “1984“
Credit “Impeach for Peace“.
An Aging Trans Woman 