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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
– Edmund Burke
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez:
– Edmund Burke
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez:
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
– Edmund Burke
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez:
– Edmund Burke
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez:
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Alternate-reality TV series: TEW?
The West Wing was a wonderful fantasy about how honest, effective and responsible senior officials and staff could be. Smart, honorable, passionate about service. And many of the best good guys were Republicans who restrained their own team's bad guys.
The West Wing was a wonderful fantasy about how honest, effective and responsible senior officials and staff could be. Smart, honorable, passionate about service. And many of the best good guys were Republicans who restrained their own team's bad guys.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Alternate-reality TV series: TEW?
The West Wing was a wonderful fantasy about how honest, effective and responsible senior officials and staff could be. Smart, honorable, passionate about service. And many of the best good guys were Republicans who restrained their own team's bad guys.
The West Wing was a wonderful fantasy about how honest, effective and responsible senior officials and staff could be. Smart, honorable, passionate about service. And many of the best good guys were Republicans who restrained their own team's bad guys.
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Democracy: scrambled or re-hatched?
We can do this thing
Indeed we can
We've done it before
And we'll do it again!
Fragile lies the head that wears a crown
(Henry IV, Part 2)
We can do this thing
Indeed we can
We've done it before
And we'll do it again!
Fragile lies the head that wears a crown
(Henry IV, Part 2)
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Democracy: scrambled or re-hatched?
We can do this thing
Indeed we can
We've done it before
And we'll do it again!
Fragile lies the head that wears a crown
(Henry IV, Part 2)
We can do this thing
Indeed we can
We've done it before
And we'll do it again!
Fragile lies the head that wears a crown
(Henry IV, Part 2)
www.etymonline.com/search?q=exorcism
…"a calling up or driving out of evil spirits," from … ex "out of" + horkizein "cause to swear…
Perhaps some who have been sworn in (perhaps under false pretenses, to serve masters other than We The People) ought to be sworn back out?
Charles Burns:
…"a calling up or driving out of evil spirits," from … ex "out of" + horkizein "cause to swear…
Perhaps some who have been sworn in (perhaps under false pretenses, to serve masters other than We The People) ought to be sworn back out?
Charles Burns:
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
www.etymonline.com/search?q=exorcism
…"a calling up or driving out of evil spirits," from … ex "out of" + horkizein "cause to swear…
Perhaps some who have been sworn in (perhaps under false pretenses, to serve masters other than We The People) ought to be sworn back out?
Charles Burns:
…"a calling up or driving out of evil spirits," from … ex "out of" + horkizein "cause to swear…
Perhaps some who have been sworn in (perhaps under false pretenses, to serve masters other than We The People) ought to be sworn back out?
Charles Burns:
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
5/ Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay,
These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed—
All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed—
All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
June 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
5/ Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay,
These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed—
All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed—
All the right they promise—all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
The Cheshire Cat fades away - but will it stay away?
May 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Cheshire Cat fades away - but will it stay away?
2/ The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
April 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
2/ The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
5/ that the Supreme Court shall immediately have removed from its jurisdiction the power to negate, by ruling them to be unconstitutional or by any other judicial action, any or all acts of the President, his duly appointed aides, or Congress.
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
5/ that the Supreme Court shall immediately have removed from its jurisdiction the power to negate, by ruling them to be unconstitutional or by any other judicial action, any or all acts of the President, his duly appointed aides, or Congress.
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
2/ In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
- Niels Bohr
- Niels Bohr
April 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
2/ In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
- Niels Bohr
- Niels Bohr
2/ At least when there's an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you'd have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.
- Elon Musk
- Elon Musk
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
2/ At least when there's an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you'd have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.
- Elon Musk
- Elon Musk
2/ But the old man brought a small figure from his bosom and knelt before it. Abraham chastised this idolatry, pressing him to bow to the one true God. Said the stranger, “This is the god of my family; I worship no other.” Furious, Abraham drove him from the tent, out to stormy darkness.
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
2/ But the old man brought a small figure from his bosom and knelt before it. Abraham chastised this idolatry, pressing him to bow to the one true God. Said the stranger, “This is the god of my family; I worship no other.” Furious, Abraham drove him from the tent, out to stormy darkness.
5/ In the morning, God came to Abraham in full glory, saying: “As you mastered your pride and showed compassion to this needy one of Mine, so shall I tolerate and give aid to all of your descendants.”
- Midrash
- Midrash
April 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
5/ In the morning, God came to Abraham in full glory, saying: “As you mastered your pride and showed compassion to this needy one of Mine, so shall I tolerate and give aid to all of your descendants.”
- Midrash
- Midrash
2/ The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
April 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
2/ The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth… This god, this one word: "I.”
- Ayn Rand
Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all–the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
- Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor
Write what he means, not what he says.
- Earl Bush, his press secretary
- Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor
Write what he means, not what he says.
- Earl Bush, his press secretary
March 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all–the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
- Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor
Write what he means, not what he says.
- Earl Bush, his press secretary
- Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor
Write what he means, not what he says.
- Earl Bush, his press secretary
2) ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master - that’s all.”
- Lewis Carroll
Ben Rich:
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master - that’s all.”
- Lewis Carroll
Ben Rich:
March 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
2) ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master - that’s all.”
- Lewis Carroll
Ben Rich:
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master - that’s all.”
- Lewis Carroll
Ben Rich:
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is MINE; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Boris Artzybasheff, vergeltungswaffe:
Boris Artzybasheff, vergeltungswaffe:
March 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is MINE; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Boris Artzybasheff, vergeltungswaffe:
Boris Artzybasheff, vergeltungswaffe:
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
- Philip Roth
If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Joseph Keppler:
- Philip Roth
If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Joseph Keppler:
March 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
- Philip Roth
If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Joseph Keppler:
- Philip Roth
If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Joseph Keppler:
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
- James Kern Feibleman
- James Kern Feibleman
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
- James Kern Feibleman
- James Kern Feibleman
1) It is proposed that certain formally deterministic fluid systems which possess many scales of motion are observationally indistinguishable from indeterministic systems; specifically, that two states of the system differing initially by a small “observational error”
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
1) It is proposed that certain formally deterministic fluid systems which possess many scales of motion are observationally indistinguishable from indeterministic systems; specifically, that two states of the system differing initially by a small “observational error”