Oh what a tangled web we weave,/When first we practise to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott Blackmail is a most delightful enterprise. Well, it’s delightful when you’re the one blackmailing someone else. If the tables are turned, however, it’s terrible. But that’s not the position I’m currently in. I, currently, am the one with the…
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde If I told you to stop reading this blog post right now, could you do it? I mean you already followed one link or another to get here. You intentionally wanted to read what I had to say….
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club One morning I woke up, tired of being a coward. I was tired of being afraid. Tired of being intimidated. I realized that for 22 years I had confused “being nice” with “fear of confrontation.” So…
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. — Carl Reiner A frozen tundra, a snowy whisper: I cross the arctic just in slippers. Goosebumps, shivers, icy feel, replaced my chest with frozen steel. My breath is foggy, fingers numb; warmth, I fear, will never come The…
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. — Henry Kissinger Ah, servitude. The great role of butlers, limo drivers, and the siblings of brothers with a broken leg. For assuming you didn’t know, my brother, Zach, broke his leg on the monkey bars. And because he just forced me to…
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. — Gore Vidal There are few things in life that can sway the emotions of an entire country. The winner of American Idol. The release of a Harry Potter novel. This blog. The presidential election. And whether…