thoughts
beauty on the road
I was driving up the road and, over the hill, I saw the fullness of the moon. I was initially taken in by the beauty of the moon itself and tried to exclude the things made by humans: the road, the telephone poles.
[more]on tyranny: lesson one
Timothy Snyder (2017), in Lesson One of On Tyranny advises us not to comply in advance. He cites historical examples in which compliance in advance actually taught the regime what they were able to do. He also described the Stanley Milgram experiments people were willing to give what they believed to be lethal shocks to people they didn’t know simply because they were instructed to by the experimenter.
[more]donald trump is a russian asset
It’s plain to see, and has been for some time, that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
Read this: What Putin has on Trump
2025-09-05
[more]bad woman
she sure is
one bad woman:
she makes me
better than
otherwise.
a bad woman:
she speaks her
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hotheaded
I value having a cool head. I really do. I want wisdom and reason to prevail. But, Lord, I’ll tell you, I’m feeling hotheaded today. I’m hot under the collar and itching for action. I’m chaffing at the evil that’s happening right before our eyes.
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