The Sisyphus of Kabul (Part One)

 

"Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. he was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head..." -- Homer, "The Odyssey", Book XI.

Galactic Housekeeping (#15 - The Results are In, More CRT, and Supermarkets Suck)

 No quote today...

Critical Race Dogsqueeze...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself or others. And having no respect, he ceases to love..." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Two Weeks to Flatten the Turd...

 "Hubris is one of the great renewable resources...." -- PJ O'Rourke

Galactic Housekeeping (#14 -- COVID Clarification, Farewell to Google)

 No quote today, as I have to correct something I've written.

TL:DR...

 

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in..." -- Isaac Asimov

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists of holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture..." -- Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"

Two Diseases...

 

"In light of all the recent talk of new mask mandates, new shutdowns, and more-draconian restrictions, we may have to draw two unmistakable conclusions: the first is that "the shot" does not work. The second is that the people who are supposed to be "in charge" don't know what to do except to double down on fucktard. It should now be unmistakably clear that they have never known what do...and apparently do not care. You could easily be forgiven for starting to believe that these extraordinary levels of incompetence and venality are not mere accidents of personalities or failures of systems -- they are, and have been, deliberate acts undertaken for specific purposes." -- The Overlord