“In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
This is from the pamphlet that sparked alliance to a Revolution. The most sold publication in America for most of its history
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Today, we will attempt the call of nature…
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Gertrude Stein
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C Clarke
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler
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Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
Are Cautionary tales wagged by Cautionary beasts? Just a thought of my own. Although, I had this broken mirror picture for a prompt. There’s nothing to say a theme or image is required. In keeping with the rules, the victim list:
A darkened house, Https://adarkenedhouse.wordpress.com
Nothing is set in stone, except of course your epitaph. In a recent essay for Aeon, Tom Pitock mused on the difficulty of writing his own father’s epitaph, and why we etch words on tombstones to remember people we loved. But not every culture uses epitaphs, as Pitock learned in Greenland: It took real effort to find the cemetery […]
In a recent piece for Mother Jones, Molly Redden looked at why it can be particularly hard for wrongfully convicted women to be exonerated (Women make up about 11 percent of the people convicted of violent crimes, but just 6 percent of those exonerated of violent crimes). Despite their good intentions, most innocence projects fail to bring […]
Coloring Outside the Lines 