“The simple exhaustion of being lectured daily by the literal dumbest people you've ever seen in your life about how the problem with our society and government is a lack of competency.”
Ed Burmilla, AKA, the writer of Gin and Tacos.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
no. 989
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
no. 988
“your best men die in alleys
under a sheet of paper
while your worst men
get statues in parks
for pigeons to shit upon for
centuries.”
Charles Bukowkski
Monday, January 27, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
no. 986
"Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few."
Lucinda Williams, born in today Lake Charles, Louisiana (1953).
no. 985
“ When you worship power, empathy will look like a sin.”
David Snelling (@dpsifr.bsky.social)
no. 983
“The only cause for which a correspondent must fight is to tell the truth and the whole truth.”
Malcolm Browne, Associated Press Saigon Bureau Chief early 1960s
Saturday, January 25, 2025
no. 976
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato, over 2500 years ago.
Friday, January 24, 2025
no. 975
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
no. 973
“Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.”
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
no. 972
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Monday, January 20, 2025
Sunday, January 19, 2025
no. 970
“Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.”
William O. Douglas, who died on this day in 1980
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Friday, January 17, 2025
no. 968
"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future."
"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow."
Dian Fossey
Thursday, January 16, 2025
no. 967
The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
no. 966
"Having grown up under an authoritarian regime, I cherish the right to free speech that Zuckerberg kept talking about. But having gone on to study the way that authoritarian regimes work, I know to focus on what people do, not what they say."
-- Zeynep Tufekci
no. 965
"The root of modern totalitarianism is to be found in the denial of the transcendent dignity of the human person who, as the visible image of the invisible God, is therefore by his very nature the subject of rights that no one may violate (273)."
Pope Francis, #FratelliTutti
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
no. 964
"Every upright conscience cannot but decisively condemn any racism, no matter in what heart or place it is found. Ultimately, it emerges in ever new and unexpected ways, offending and degrading the human family."
Saint John Paul II
Monday, January 13, 2025
no. 960
I sincerely wish that it may be as clearly foreseen by every good citizen, that whenever the dissolution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet: "FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS."
- Publius (John Jay), Federalist No 2
Sunday, January 12, 2025
no. 957
“One of the deep secrets in life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
~Lewis Carroll
Saturday, January 11, 2025
no. 954
For anyone out there who thinks I ought to be embarrassed about posting a bunch of rock lyrics; when I was a young lad, I put an afterword about the lyrics of a Yes song on a term paper about William Blake that I had stayed up all night writing. If I can live through that kind of embarrassment, I can live through this.
Friday, January 10, 2025
no. 952
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the wet years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
John Steinbeck
Thursday, January 9, 2025
no. 951
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
no. 950
"To embrace hopelessness is to distance oneself from middle-class privilege that assumes all is going to work out in the end."
Monday, January 6, 2025
no. 948
“I know that dogs and other creatures have lessons, important lessons, to teach us if we’re willing to learn. I know that the wilderness gives us space to know ourselves, and God, if we take the time to listen.”
Leland Dirks
no. 947
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller
Sunday, January 5, 2025
no. 944
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
-ALVIN TOFFLER
no. 943
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
James Baldwin
Saturday, January 4, 2025
no. 942
"My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am."
"I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual."
Happy birthday Michael Stipe
Born: January 4, 1960
Decatur, Georgia, United States
no. 940
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
Friday, January 3, 2025
no. 939
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
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