Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. — Voltaire I don’t know if I’ve ever used this blog to broadcast inflammatory ideas, so today’s post may be the first. Sometimes, though, sometimes you believe in an idea so deeply, so passionately, that to keep from expressing it is to melt…
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Soren Kierkegaard These last few weeks I’ve woken up with a sense of unease, an almost physical disturbance, like a picture frame slightly off level or a shoe lace that skipped an eyehole. An unsettling, really. An almost general sense of anxiety. But what could be causing it?…
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home…The aggregate of our joy and suffering… every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,”…
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton With the right combination of words, I can convince anyone to do anything. Or so I believed when I was eight-years-old, standing beside my brother after persuading him to stick sleeping Dad’s fingers in a bowl of warm water. And even though Dad woke instantly…
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. — George Orwell Of all my friends and family that I left behind in Portland, my cats, Simba and Naala, the cutest and furriest iterations of Satan himself, were not even considerations for those I would miss. But now, alone in my room,…
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…