“It is necessary that I should know the truth that I may chastise you for the evil you have done or avenge you for the wrongs you have endured.” —Miguel…
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“Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.” Colleen P. Kirk I now own…four cat beds, each with an infant plushie blanket; a folding camping chair, which I keep outside my…
“O cruel needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, the struggle was…
Awful truth #18: Acceptance and respect are irrelevant. You have no right to either. “There are few as intolerant as those who preach tolerance.” Anthony Browne, The Retreat of…
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.” William O. Douglas The four of…
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire There is a disturbing short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away…
“Technology is a wonderful thing. Until it isn’t.” Articles of the Faith, Chapter of Acceptance, Verse 17 It was said the old man knew things. That’s why I went…
“It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game On November 18, 2023, the City of…
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Herbert Stein Reality is a scary place. Don’t go there. No matter what you do, don’t go there. This is…
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.” G.K. Chesterton “I’d always thought there’d be more…