The Sunshine Empire

“To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.”
-Thomas E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

JSM

“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”
-Jean Rostand,

After reading today that 44 Republican Senators filibustered a bill that would require that soldiers get as much time at home training as the spend in the field I was astounded. Not one of them will skip a beat and begin bullshitting the locals about how we should support the troops. Lindsay Graham [...]

My boy Joey Ratz tells Condi to suck it

I have to listen to this on every Monday.

I just had a random thought. I was downstairs and had a glass of white cranberry juice. On the bottle it says that it is flavored with real white cranberry juice drink and “another fruit juice.” They say this despite the fact that they claim to be completely free of artificial colorings [...]

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, [...]