Once a legitimate blog. Now just a collection of memes 'n menz.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different." ~ C.S. Lewis
In 1969 could anyone have even imagined that 50 years later we'd all be carrying computers in our pockets that were hundreds of times more powerful than what put men on the moon? Or that we hadn't been back to the moon since 1972?
God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?" ~ Samuel Johnson
Religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. […]
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction." ~ Bil Maher, Religulous.
I have become more radical in the last 5 years than in all my days at college, law school, and 41 years of practicing law. They say one gets more conservative as they grow older, and I say, not if you're paying attention. ~ Sandra Blue
Raise your hand if you'd like to see rotting gasbag Steve Bannon testify under oath in front of Congress on live television for 11 straight hours to explain why he shouldn't be thrown straight the fuck into prison right now for openly plotting to overthrow our government." ~ Jeff Tiedrich
He does it because he knows there are no consequences for anything these days.
The civil war in 1861 happened when the South said we are leaving the Union and the North then waged a war to keep them. Today If Red states wanted to leave the North would say 'check out time is 1pm'" ~ Dean Obeidallah
Be thankful for all the difficult people in your life, and learn from them. They have shown you exactly who you do not want to be."
…but here we are.
It was a stark reminder of how the Grand Old Party has corrupted itself over the past 20 years: from Bush to Trump, from a party of conservatism to a violent faction that refuses to honor free and fair elections and the rule of law." ~ George W. Bush, 9/11 speech
There are Democrats, but there are no Republicans. After January6, there are only ex-Republicans and Fascists.
The policies of George W. Bush and his corrupt administration were the reason I started blogging back in 2004.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell." ~ Marquis de Sade
All empires die. The end is usually unpleasant. The American empire, humiliated in Afghanistan, as it was in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, as it was at the Bay of Pigs and in Vietnam, is blind to its own declining strength, ineptitude, and savagery. Its entire economy, a "military Keynesianism," revolves around the war industry. Military spending and war are the engine behind the nation's economic survival and identity. It does not matter that with each new debacle the United States turns larger and larger parts of the globe against it and all it claims to represent. It has no mechanism to stop itself, despite its numerous defeats, fiascos, blunders and diminishing power, from striking out irrationally like a wounded animal. The mandarins who oversee our collective suicide, despite repeated failure, doggedly insist we can reshape the world in our own image. This myopia creates the very conditions that accelerate the empire's demise." ~ Chris Hedges (via azspot)
When we landed on the moon, that was the moment where God should've come up and said, "Hello." Because if you invent some creatures, put them on the blue one and then they make it to the grey one, you fucking turn up and say, "Well done!" It's just a polite thing to do." ~ Eddie Izzard
I mean (and I've said this before) that COVID gave us the opportunity to start doing things differently; to make a new way of life. And it was working!
But noooo... As soon as they could (some say it's still too early) the powers that be declared it was time we get back to the exact same horrid state everything was in prior to COVID—even with the knowledge that the average person actually preferred the slower pace of life; the freedom of not having to waste time sitting in traffic to get to a job that it was proven could be done from home instead of being trapped in a beige cube for 8 hours a day, and the multitude of other positive things that were happening. (Like cleaner air; less emissions. Less—if only a minuscule—reduction in global warming? Remember how that spontaneously happened a few weeks into lockdown?)
Remember when almost everyone was working from home and the streets were nearly deserted? Remember when wildlife started appearing in the cities again? Remember when we were actually paying attention to health and safety?
And there's a not-so-subtle resentment that's building because of it. People are saying hell no to going back to into the office and it's going to be interesting to see if the wheels of industry adapt or continue thinking they can crush people under the weight of "it's always been done that way."
While not perfect, the entity I work for is at least allowing for most of the employees who have been working from home over the last eighteen months to continue to do so two days a week going forward. (I was hoping for a two-day/three-day alternating week schedule, but this is the best we're going to get at the moment.)
"There's something obscenely American about refusing a vaccine that millions around the world are desperate to get." ~ George Takei
First they came for the Confederate statues, and I did not speak out—because seriously, fuck the Confederacy." ~ Jeff Tiedrich
Because nobody needs to see that.
Let's start calling these vaccine avoiders what they are: freeloaders. The only reason you're somewhat safe now is because other people got the shot. You're the person who heads for the bathroom when the check comes at the restaurant. You're the lady who takes home the centerpieces from a wedding you weren't invited to. You're the guy who brings five napkins to a potluck dinner. That's you." ~ Jimmy Kimmel
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." ~ Haruki Murakami