In your dreams
Old books have stood the test of generations of imaginations
Money talks
Odd that donations by large corporations to conservative parties is just a matter of freedom of speech; donations by any community groups to left wing political parties will result in the end of democracy as we know it.
Home sweet home
Strange that it is often the countries whose people most loudly express their love of their homeland who are most likely to invade other people\’s homelands.
No joke
The humorosity* of a comedian is inversely proportional to the degree to which they visibly find their own jokes funny. * I invented this word and find it hilariously funny.
Liberty and Death
Corporations and right wing politicians noisily demand an end to all regulation until some disaster caused by lack of regulation in some aspect of daily life kills, unpleasantly, many people, then they go quiet for a day or two before again noisily demanding the end of all regulation. Gun makers and the NRA use the
But seriously now
Would you rather share your dinner table with Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, or me?* *Don\’t want to influence your decision but bear in mind that the other two are dead.
Hush, hush, whisper who dares
As inventions go, sliced bread wasn\’t much of one.
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Swiftian rule
Odd that it seems to be inevitably the case that the ruler of extremely poor countries where every one is very skinny are very very fat. Almost as if they were eating their own people.