In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself Wislawa Szymborska The buzzard never says it is to blame. The panther wouldn’t know what scruples mean. When the piranha strikes it feels no shame. If snakes had hands, they’s claim their hands were clean. A jackal doesn’t understand remorse. Lions and lice don’t waver in their course. … More In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself
“I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out … More Quote of the Day
“Whether it’s the Clintons with their foundations or Al Gore with his movies and his carbon-trading interests or the Bush/Cheney axis of hereditary politics and energy commerce, we expect the politicians who make it to the big time to cash in somewhere along the line because, hey, this is America. Donald Trump, if elected, would … More Quote of the Day
I am a political junkie, and as an ex-pat American and typical immigrant, I follow the politics of the old country obsessively from my adopted home of Canada. On the day of the New Hampshire primary, I was driving to meet a friend for coffee and started to search the car radio for an American … More Snake Oil
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely … More Quote of the Day
“The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn’t have happened to Jews.”—Sarah Silverman
This video of comedian Sarah Silverman introducing Bernie Sanders is amazing. It captures much of the sentiment that underlies the enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and his battle to win the Democratic nomination for President. By now the oligarchy in America is so entrenched, and the money in American politics is so corrupting that an honest politician … More Sarah Silverman Introduces Bernie Sanders
“Hillary lies! Bill lies! The Clintons lie! Bernie Sanders tells the truth and is tossing garlic and holy water in the face of those vampires who want to suck the blood of our nation’s poor and middle class, trickling it up to the plutocrats who are now running our country. It is obvious that Hillary … More Quote of the Day
This is the second imagined conversation between Pope Francis and Donald Trump, using actual quotations on a variety of subjects. Donald Trump: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. Pope Francis: A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a … More Donald Trump Sits Down With Pope Francis Again
“The two-state solution did not die a natural death. It was strangulated as Jewish settlements in the West Bank were expanded and deepened by successive Israeli governments in order to prevent the emergence of a viable Palestinian state. The settlement project has achieved its intended irreversibility, not only because of its breadth and depth but … More Quote of the Day
No Harm Spilt 