The Sunshine Empire

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
-Theodore Roosevelt (Twenty Sixth President of The United States)

“The fact that an opinion has been wildly held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
-Bertrand Russell

This evening marks the official one year anniversary of the birth of www.thesunshineempire.com.  From September of 2006 until July 1st of 2007 I wrote The Sunshine Empire at sunshineempire.blogspot.com.  Yet in the early part of 2007 while working with an SEO specialist named Josh I was convinced to take the blog out onto my own [...]

“Freedom has been hunted around the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. In such a situation, man becomes what he ought to be.”
Thomas Paine (American [...]

“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do”
-Soren Kierkegaard

“Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer —
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom”
-T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men)

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
-Plato

“There’s no question about it, in the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.”
-Robert F. Kennedy 1963