David Foster Wallace, for the win ( Read more... )

Got bit by a dog named Barkley (a Coonhound) while I was grooming today. The dog panicked and bit me pretty good, leaving an inch-long gash with a deep puncture wound on my left pinky finger. Blood was literally flowing out of the wound for about five minutes. I felt lightheaded by the time we got to the hospital from bleeding.I gleaned more ( Read more... )

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A dysfunctional system cannot be made miraculously functional no matter how many rational, well-intentioned and high-functioning agents are injected into it.

It is like suggesting a new bulb for a broken lamp. The problem is not the bulb. The problem is the lamp.

December 18, 1963. MLK Jr. at Western Michigan University.

Modern psychology has a word…”maladjusted.” Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities ( Read more... )

we shall go off on a nighttime journey and not be sure where it leads ( Read more... )

Kick the terrible people off the thrones that make them demons

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The economy is not a morality game, it is completely devoid of morality. So devoid of morality that trying to apply moral scruples to it is mainly an exercise in self-righteousness ( Read more... )