A Pathetic Little Boy Named Trump

So true. Republicans are so corrupt and/or stupid, they don't even understand the virtues they profess to admire.

The Painter Who Sells Stockings

“He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth shut, the coward who gives up his manliness, all these people perceive in a deep way that they have done wrong to themselves and despise themselves for it.”

— Abraham Maslow

Hit the Republicans Hard, Then Do It Again

“Biden prefers to project an image of confidence and smiley-faced bipartisanship,” wrote The Week magazine. “But with Republicans committed to obstruction, ‘partisan and cultural conflicts’ are inevitable. And most issues, including mask and vaccination mandates, Biden has popular opinion behind him. For the good of the country and his presidency, Biden should drop the pretense that bipartisan agreement is possible, and ‘fight on more polarized issues instead of trying to dodge them.’”

I never want to hear that worthless, dangerous damned word “bipartisanship” again. Playing “bipartisan” with the Nazi GOP is the same thing as offering your throat to their sacrificial knife.

Hit them, hit them hard and then hit them again and again and again!

All Those Little Goodies Your God Gives You

Evangelical Christians will burn the whole Earth to warm their pie in the sky.

 

Arise Before the Stupid Stir

Impressionist landscape by Bart DeCeglie

Jim Hampton wrote: "A cool, early-morning walk in the sunrise does wonders for a person’s disposition.

"The dangerous stupidity of the world isn’t awake yet."

A Religion Born on Earth

'Colors of the Rain' by Xangzi Xu

“Among the founders of religions, the Buddha was the only teacher who did not claim divine authority in any form. He attributed all his realization, attainments and achievements to human endeavor and human intelligence. 

“His philosophy is entirely based on observation and reasoning. His characteristic doctrines such as impermanence and dependent origination have an empirical justification. 

“His rejection of metaphysical speculation is based on the philosophically sound insight that such questions are unanswerable on the basis of observation. For example, he compares the question, ‘Does the saint exist after death or not?’ to the question ‘(Has) the flame that has gone out gone north or not?’”

— Narayan Champawat

You Can Always Get What You Don’t Want

“Everybody knows the pain of getting what we don’t want: saints, sinners, winners, losers,” wrote Pema Chodron in The Places That Scare You. 

“I feel gratitude that someone saw the truth and pointed out that we don’t suffer this kind of pain because of our personal inability to get things right.”

Buddhist insights “...encourage us to relax gradually and wholeheartedly into the ordinary and obvious truth of change,” said the American Tibetan Buddhist. “Acknowledging this truth doesn’t mean that we’re looking on the dark side. What it means is that we begin to understand that we’re not the only one who can’t keep it together. We no longer believe that there are people who have managed to avoid uncertainty.”