Selfish Is As Selfish Does

 Once the leader of the free world, the city on a hill with morals and standards that engendered...

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

- William Blake

Behind the Locked Door
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Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb

 I am so far quite unable to justify one of my central convictions: that, even if it were possible to make all men happy by an operation or a drug that would stultify their development, this would somehow be an impious crime. This conviction is ultimately rooted In...

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The Dark Side

The Dark Side

 I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604." And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill, I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill. I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my...

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The Fable of the Barons

The Fable of the Barons

 “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult...

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Shining City On A Hill

Shining City On A Hill

 From President Reagan’s farewell address to the nation 1-11-89:The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the “shining city upon a hill.” The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What...

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Terrifying Words

Terrifying Words

 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan Remove the first five words from President Reagan’s quip and you’ve got something worth noting. It makes sense to be suspicious of anyone who...

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Only The Artists Can Fix It

Only The Artists Can Fix It

 Many years ago during a local supervisors race I was tasked with developing a fundraiser for a local candidate. I owned a restaurant at the time and I had just finished rebuilding after a disastrous fire. We had moved the bar from the cellar to a large beautiful...

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Resign

Resign

 Why did an 80-year-old widower who lives in a Newtown Square retirement community spend $50,000 to take out a full-page ad in last Sunday’s New York Times pleading for President Donald Trump to resign? Read the answer HERE.Text of the full page ad that an 80 year old...

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The Putsch

The Putsch

 What is happening in America today is a well-planned organized old school Putsch. You might think it’s just Trump being Trump but that would be a serious mistake. Trump is a convenient tool who arrived on the scene at just the right time to be exploited. The Putsch...

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At The Circus

At The Circus

 But what of the Roman Mob? They follow Fortune, as always, and hate whoever she Condemns. If Nortia, as the Etruscans called her, had favoured Etruscan Sejanus; if the old Emperor had been surreptitiously Smothered; that same crowd in a moment would have hailed Their...

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Mindless

Mindless

 Mindless (Google’s English dictionary, Oxford Languages)Acting or done without justification or concern for the consequencesNot thinking of or concerned about(Of an activity) So simple or repetitive as to be performed automatically without thought or skill Will...

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What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

 David Foster Wallace started his 2005 commence speech to the graduating class at Kenyon with this short story:There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s...

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Slow

Slow

“There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were...

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