“She brought the glass over. Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.”
—Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse or defend them.”
—Fredrick Douglass

“I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.”

-Elmore Leonard “Labrava”

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”
—Cixin Liu
The Three Body Problem

Detroit vs Everybody

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Ideas?

Beware of thoughtcrime, I guess?

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence and as difficult to attain”

—George Orwell, 1984

“Sometimes within failure is contained magnificence.”
—Walter Mosley

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (Don Quixote)

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles…
—George Orwell

“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said. If he didn’t, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like his teaching, but whether he rose from the dead.”

—Tim Keller