On Charlie Kirk...

 "People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do, If you need to injure someone do it in such a way as you do not have to fear their vengeance ..." -- Niccolo Machiavelli

You All Suck (#57 - Hamas Is Killing The Wrong People Edition)

 "A fool says nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything..." -- Aristotle

Thoughts on Islamofascism...

 "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible ye dislike a thing that is good for you and ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not..." -- Quran (2:216)

Notes on Grief...

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break..." -- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"For Better or For Worse..."

 "Where you used to be, there's a hole in the world, where I constantly find myself walking around it in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell..." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Majority of One (Tribalism is for Losers...)

 "I am NOT a racist....I hated Obama's White Half, too..." -- The Overlord

Three Thoughts...

No quote today (I know you're disappointed), just a recap of some recent events and some things I've found interesting.

Mental Illness, Politics and Religion...Sorry, I Repeat Myself...

"Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind." -- Eric Hoffer

You've Spelled "White Superiority" Incorrectly...

"Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under New Management." -- Thomas Sowell

You All Suck (Example #29, Holiday Edition)

"Censorship is telling a man he cannot have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." -- Mark Twain

Conspiracy Theory: Because Stupid People Need a Hobby, Too...

"The main thing I learned about Conspiracy Theory is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is often chaotic. The Truth is that it is not the Illuminati, The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Conspiracy. The Truth is far more frightening -- no one is in control. The World is rudderless." -- Philip Moore

"...if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain everything. Including the cosmos, itself." -- Fritz Leiber

A Majority of One: Counting Cults...

"There are some ideas so stupid only an intellectual could believe in them..." -- George Orwell.

You All Suck (Example #20 - Evil Spock Explains All)

"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it." -- George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

We're NOT A "Christian" Country, Part Two...

"Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society." -- Thomas Jefferson

We're NOT A "Christian" Country, Part One...

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."  -- Thomas Paine

A Message to the Delusional "REAL" Conservative...

If I were an Alabaman this morning, I'd be fucking embarrassed...

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 11/18/2017): The American Public...

It would appear as if the greatest existential threat that faces America does not come from North Korean nuclear weapons, the specter of Islamofascist terrorism, or even the phony horrors of a supposedly-overheated planet; rather, our Doom originates in the special brand of Industrial-Strength Fucking Stupid we have been churning out in assembly-line fashion for the last six decades.

When I finally achieve power over Space, Time, Matter and Energy, a lot of you are going to be contemplating a future in which you might end up as a desiccated, powdery substance I've sold off to the highest bidder for use as an additive to kitty litter.

You All Suck (Exhibit #10 - Stupid, They Name is Religion)

As a blogger of many years and (very) middling following, experience has taught me that there are really only a few subjects you can write about that will get you an overwhelming response, that, all things considered, you probably don't want.

You All Suck (Exhibit #2)

Q: Why do we all suck?

A: Because there's always one of you who ruins it for everyone else.

I have been asked that question several times now. "Why would you write something like this? Don't you think people might be offended?"

Because I want to. As for giving offense, I don't remember it being engraved in stone somewhere that everyone had the right to go through life unoffended.

Certainly, no one worries about offending me. I can't remember a single instance in my entire life where someone said to me "I'm sorry, I did not mean to offend you", or "I'm sorry that you're offended", and even when someone says, as an aside to some particularly rude remark they've made in passing, "No offense", you know they really don't mean it. It's simply another way of saying "Fuck you, I'm speaking. Don't interrupt me" most times.

Because most people have a passionate love affair with the the sound of their own voice, even when they're spewing complete and utter bullshit.