Author Archives: shmoover

You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. – Ivan Boesky Just let me get elected, and then you can have your war. – Lyndon Johnson Don’t you get the idea I’m one of those goddamn radicals. Don’t … Continue reading →

…the shameful corruption which lately crept into our politics, and in a handful of years has spread until the pollution has affected some portion of every State and every Territory in the Union. – Mark Twain, 1873 I can hire … Continue reading →

Hollywood is the only way that the public learns about the Agency. – Paul Barry, CIA Entertainment Industry Liaison Officer All of these films and TV series superficially mask the old theme of the American Hero. But, as I write … Continue reading →

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” – James Baldwin You cannot dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. – Audre Lorde If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear … Continue reading →

We have no tradition of shamanism…of journeying into these mental worlds. We are terrified of madness. We fear it because the Western mind is a house of cards, and the people who built that house of cards know that, and … Continue reading →

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti  …divide us those in darkness from the ones who walk in light… – Kurt Weill The price of hating other human beings is … Continue reading →

As long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. – Increase Mather Don’t blame Wall Street; don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job, and you’re not rich, blame yourself. … Continue reading →