today I am sad

Demagogy is the set of methods used by demagogues. It is a strategy of obtaining power by appealing to the gut feelings of the public, usually by powerful use of rhetoric and propaganda.

H. L. Mencken, an American critic, defined a demagogue as

"one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Prepubescent vomiting is all that is left of god.

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To those of you whom suffer from rampant emotional hysteria I offer my sympathies.
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"Any man can receive advice but only a wise man profits from it."

-Fortune Cookie

I don't expect a perfect world. Just a reasonable one.

I was driving down the Street and I had this vision of myself in a hospital bed. I had all these tubes in me. Around the bed were my girlfriend and some friends. This lead me to feel like I was in critical condition. Not doing well. The feeling lasted only a few seconds ( Read more... )

Via : policraticus
Inflicted : debate
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"Ars longa, brevis vita.
The majority of mortals, fellow debaters, complain bitterly of the ( Read more... )