feels like mush. I can’t seem to concentrate and it takes me forever to try to get some of my writing for school done. It’s late and I’m tired but not sleepy. The apartment building has been annoyingly loud tonight – party one floor up and next door neighbor pounding on her own door because …
Plato is not exactly a hero of mine, in fact there is much that I don’t agree with in his philosophies, however, I came across this quote in his The Republic and thought it was so very appropriate to our contemporary political landscape:
“The truth is that if you want a well-governed state you must find for your future rulers some career they like better than government; for only then will you have government by the truly rich, those, that is, whose riches consist not of money, but of the happiness of a right and rational life. If you get, in public affairs, men who are so morally impoverished that they have nothing they can contribute themselves, but who hope to snatch some compensation for their own inadequacy from a political career, there can never be good government. They start fighting for power and the consequent internal and domestic conflicts ruin both them and society.”
Amen, brother.
Not to mention anti-progressive and, apparently, anti-repreductive rights. Why, because it’s very very easy to vote against Alito when you know the votes won’t count. 42 Senators did so. Yet, hmmm, only 25 of them voted against cloture. I’m not going into a full analysis of why one or the other and this is probably …
More sites to make you smile or even laugh hard enough that milk comes out of your nose. What you would be doing with milk in your nose is entirely your business.
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Seriously, this guy has time to spare! ASCII animation.
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Hawaii definitely put into relief just how distant from nature I am and how, living in NY, one becomes cut off from sky and surf and land. I am more sure than ever that I don’t want to stay in NYC any longer than necessary for my PhD. I’m sure I’m not alone amongst the …
The rainbow pics I mentioned.
I took this of sunset through a mangrove tree while using a flash. The tree was huge!!
These are from our drive up Weimea Canyon…
Caught this one mid-step!
