no. 555

"Writing is thinking, and good, honest thinking involves revision."

Richard Russo in Everybody's Fool

no. 554

“They say nothing is impossible , but I do nothing every day”

Pooh, in the Christopher Robin movie

no. 553

 "When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither the facts nor the law is on you side, pound the table” 

old trial lawyer's adage

no. 552

"We need to become better at recognizing when an idea proposes an exclusive space, hidden as a proposal for a safe space.

An exclusive space is when full access to public life is seen as the right of a specific type of person, to the necessary exclusion of others.

People who benefit from exclusive spaces really love exclusive spaces.

A safe space is a space that becomes necessary when exclusive space already exists. It's a place that exists for that excluded other, and creates within a small specific parameter the full access to life that should already exist for them everywhere.

People who benefit from an exclusive space HATE safe spaces, it should be noted.

They point to those little pockets of safety from themselves as evidence that they themselves are victims of exclusive spaces."

Julius Goat, on Twitter

no. 551

“Everybody who votes I think is entitled to an opinion. If you don’t vote, I don’t think you’re entitled to an opinion. But I’ve always voted, all my life. I’ve never missed an election and when people say, ‘Hey, Hamill, shut up. Stick to acting,’ I said, ‘Really? I mean would you say that to a truck driver? Hey, shut up. Stick to truck driving.’ No. His vote is as important as mine and I think that’s the great equalizer. That’s what’s so great about democracy.”

Mark Hamill

no. 550

"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Warren Beatty as Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth

no. 549

"One of the great errors of an elite education in the United States was that it taught those attending to think that intelligence and academic achievement were measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense, equating their value with their education. Further, there are many types of intelligence, but the ones supported were academic in scope. There was little understanding of the value of social, emotional, and artistic intelligence. Those who had intellectual intelligence promulgated their type at the expense of others."

Michael Anderle in the novel "Payback Is A Bitch"

no. 548

"Life's a water slide where you die at the end."

Brian Sack's 11-year old son in a birthday card to his him.

no. 547

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

Lane Myer in "Better Off Dead"

no. 546

"Jesus H. Christ and his All-girl Orchestra!"

An oath I read on Twitter.

no. 545

“I would much rather be excluded for whom I include than included for whom I exclude.”

Unknown

no. 544

"At some point, we have to start presuming that when Republicans do things with foreseeable bad consequences, it's because they want those consequences, not because they want something else."

NCSteve on Twitter

no. 543

"No, if you claimed to be embarrassed by Barack Obama but you're somehow not embarrassed by Donald Trump—I'm going to strongly suggest it was largely a pigmentation issue."

John Pavlovitz

no. 542

"Hillary Clinton wouldn't have been capable of the malice and malpractice Trump is capable of, simply because she's a rational, level-headed, intelligent, articulate, compassionate human being—and he is none of those things.”

John Pavlovitz

no. 541

"Libertarians are born on third base and spend their entire lives trying to make people believe they hit a triple."

-Lip Gallagher

no. 540

"When the elderly, sick, and vulnerable are left without resources by this Administration, it will be the Progressives, Muslims, Jews, Humanists, and Atheists—not the Conservative Christians who will care for them as Jesus would have."

John Pavlovitz

no. 539

"Conservatives really truly thought if their butter-mold of a hate golem won, all the non white straight cis christian male people would just go back into the boxes of shame and invisibility the right had prepared for them.

They think it’s so disrespectful that none of them have."

Julius Goat on Twitter, discussing Respect.

I put this here because "butter-mold of a hate golem" is now my favorite description of Trump.

no. 538

"This exhaustion is a national epidemic.

This fatigue has become commonplace here now.

In this Presidency, America is living dog years.

We're all aging unnaturally rapidly, friends."


John Pavlovitz on Twitter.

no. 537

"If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning."

Gwen Goodnight

no. 536

"I had a long talk with a friend tonight, and he pointed out that the law is a fine thing, even when it’s wrong. It’s the only defense we have against anarchy, against the strong overwhelming the weak. And if it’s wrong, well, then it’s our job to change it."

Grady, in Jennifer Crusie's novel "Charlie All Night"