Teapot Tempests

 

"Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggerations, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as in fact as not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter to tears the descent is all too easy to sniveling and giggles..." -- Joseph Conrad

Impeachment Cost Lives...

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it..." -- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"