“They sit for coffee and laugh at us often.” —Unknown As both the wise and foolish say, “Elections have consequences.” Too often bad ones. The fundamental problem in democracies…
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[From the unpublished Hieroglyphics from an Unremarkable Age] “The gods are cruel. We humans must be better.” There once lived a remarkable little girl named Amy Wang. Over a period of…
“Most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing.” —Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes “The faintest of all human passions is the love of…
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s…
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” —Herbert Spencer “We love the sound of the future,” your audience…
BD Wong takes the knee. “We live on a placid island of ignorance.” —H.P. Lovecraft The above picture is a bearcat (from the Secret-PH.com website). This unassuming mammal is…
“In the end, deliberate inflation would act like a perverse chemotherapy regimen that ravages the body while leaving the tumor untouched.” —Peter G. Peterson, Running on Empty “There is…
“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.” —Immanuel Kant A person making these statements is part of the problem and helping make the world a fucked-up place.…
“We won’t be here forever, and when we are gone we’ll be gone a long while.” —H.L. Mencken “And all the roads that lead you there were winding, And…