Monthly Archives: October 2020

Could you imagine if I lose? I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country…I could raise more money. I would be the world’s greatest fundraiser, but I just don’t want to do it. – … Continue reading →

Reframing …he is constantly being squeezed between the world and his idea of the world. Better to have a broken head – why surrender his corner on the truth? Better just to go crazy. – Stephen Dobyns All things depend … Continue reading →

Responding to New Age Conspiracists Who is he, who even were truth on his tongue, his way of speaking it would make truth almost as offensive as falsehood? –  Herman Melville A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind … Continue reading →

Why Are Americans So Obsessed with Pedophilia? It is well that war is so terrible. We would grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee You can’t stop me. I spend 30,000 men a month. – Napoleon I would … Continue reading →

Part Five: Save the Children! I see it (the New Age movement) fundamentally shaped by an impulse to the irrational…it seems to lack any critical evaluation of itself. – Terence McKenna  The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic … Continue reading →

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. – Mark Twain. The period from mid-September through the first week of October were bookended by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and Trumpus’ illness. Republican … Continue reading →