graffiti on an Alberta st. sidewalk:

"your existence gives me hope"

"I think there is too much concentration of power in the [executive branch]. I have told the [nation] that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the [congressional unit]," said Rice...

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J: "I'm sorry the future is scary."

C: "Yeah, well... without a scary future we've got no future."

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -- Emma Goldman

Somewhere between all the drinking and studying Autumn really snuck up on me! It has been fucking freezing all day long... it's not the regular kind of cold, but the beautiful kind of cold that is simultaneously sharp and crisp while still being saturated with the smell and feel of change in the air.

In a word, it is breathtaking.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
aw, man. if you haven't read it (and I'm starting to think that I'm the only person left who hasn't), then go read it, immediately.

Frankly, I'm much sadder at the loss of Ray Charles than that of Reagan.