“It is said the power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
David Brin
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
no. 1045
Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”
“Why?” asked Frog.
“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
no. 1043
"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose, and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."
~Ursula K. Le Guin, from ‘The Lathe of Heaven’
Saturday, April 19, 2025
no. 1042
“It was the worst of times, it was the even worse than that of times.”
Ed Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
no. 1041
"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the ‘illegals’ are only guilty of being poor."
Feminist News
no. 1037
25 platforms where you can read books for free:
1. Project Gutenberg
2. LibriVox
3. Internet Archive
4. Open Library
5. Google Books
6. ManyBooks
7. Bookboon
8. Smashwords
9. Wattpad
10. Free-EBooks
11. Read Print
12. Feedbooks (Public Domain section)
13. HathiTrust Digital Library
14. PDFBooksWorld
15. Bibliomania
16. Classic Reader
17. Loyal Books
18. Library Genesis
19. Trove
20. Authorama
21. DigiLibraries
22. Europeana Collections
23. Wikisource
24. Project Gutenberg
25. International Children's Digital Library
Not a quote, but still a worthy post. And maybe a source of future quotes?
Sunday, April 13, 2025
no. 1036
“There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.”
Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social)
no. 1035
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.”
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)
no. 1034
“Why is there always money to bomb children in Gaza, but not enough to make sure every kid has a safe place to sleep in this country. We don't have a budget crisis. We have a crisis of our values.”
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez
no. 1033
“The Long Neolithic's shadow infects with a continuing need to erect stones. Modern monuments marking our ongoing desire to speak the lithic language, to enter into conversation with the land itself.”
Dr. K. Brophy
Saturday, April 5, 2025
no. 1032
“Every man is afraid of being a queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.”
Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Thursday, April 3, 2025
no. 1031
My cousin
who is young and angry
tells me at this point
she is waiting for the crash,
she is hoping for the crash,
she can only see a better world
built on the wreckage of this one,
so sympathetically
I try to remind her
that many of us
will be buried in that wreckage.
Plague Poems by @plaguepoems.bsky.social
no. 1030
“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.”
Karl Kraus (1874-1936), journalist, critic and satirist
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