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Pensée du mercredi 13 février

Acceptance is often touted as the right move spiritually, and I think that an awful lot of us waste years trying to accept the things we are meant to change…

Accepting the unacceptable creates resentment. Resentment creates rage. Rage turned inward creates depression, and depression is a great excuse for martyrdom…

When we ask for acceptance and don’t get it, it’s not because G-d is hard of hearing. It’s because the answer is no. We are not being told “Try harder.” We are being told “Stop trying.” We are being told “Move on.”
—Julia Cameron, G-d Is No Laughing Matter

Pensée du dimanche 10 février

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
—Eleanor Roosevelt

VOTE * VOTE * VOTE

Find your polling place

YES WE CAN!

Italiani per Obama

Super Gloat

No, of course I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. Communists don’t watch the Super Bowl, silly! And I follow only real football. But as in 1996, the shrieks and whoops from outside my window told me everything I needed to know. (Actually, right now, I can hear a bagpipe—some hapless B*st*nian, perhaps, in mourning?)

Wipe that smug grin off your pasty faces, New Englanders. I have news for you, and for Usama, and for Gerald Ford: New York rules. (Well, the Giants are from Jersey, but whatever.)

We rule food. We were the first capital of the United States, and now we’re the capital of the world.* We own you.

Oh, and you ruddy-hosed fiends: You’ll get yours, too! Fie, damnation, and a pox upon you!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go find a pointèd stick so I can chase that infernal bagpiper out of town.

P.S. All of that said, if the d*mn ticker-tape parade suppresses voter turnout on Tuesday, I may turn the pointèd stick on our local officials.

*Come to think of it, Sinatra, too, was from Jersey, as am I. Oh, dear…

F*ck Nader!

I am totally with Wonkette on this one!

F*ck Nader, and f*ck all of you who voted for Nader. No, cancel that: F*cking, after all, is good. You deserve dire and exquisite forms of torture.

Thanks to you, we have had eight years of idiocy and abominations. Thanks to you, we have Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court. Thanks to you, 700,000 or more Iraqis have been killed, many millions are now refugees, some 4,000 U.S. military women and men have been sent to slaughter, and more than 60,000 service members have been wounded. Thanks to you, at last estimate, some $275 million a day is being spent on a pointless and immoral war. And the “dire and exquisite forms of torture”? Gross but equally painful varieties have been perfected and carried out, at public expense, thanks to you.

I have more contempt for you than I do for Republicans, who at least act on behalf of their own self-interest as they perceive it. You are not happy unless you bring down calamity upon all.

P.S. Earth to Naderites: The United States does not—I repeat, does not—have a parliamentary system of government. Did you ever study f*cking civics?

Pensée du lundi 21 janvier

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Haiku per l’11 gennaio

Poesie pazzoidi per un artista genialoide. Grazie e tanti auguri!

Cupo fremesti
quale mar che mormora
sotto ciel glauco.

Di beltà mortal
subito risplendette
orrida notte.

In cor serbammo
di te memoria viva—
piaga feconda.

Aggiornamento: Happy Peeps’ Day! (Grazie, sor!)

Diciotto mesi fa

Time records the victory in our hearts…

Grazie, ragazzi!

Pensée du dimanche 6 janvier

Avoir de l’honnêteté et de la considération pour les méchants et pour de malhonnêtes gens, c’est cultiver une épine et nourrir un serpent dans son sein.
—Proverbe oriental

Pensée du vendredi 4 janvier

Happy new yours! Now is the best time to make an inventory of all your possessions and belongings. Sometimes, we take along too much junk that makes our life journey heavy and tiring. Edit out unnecessary things and start making room for better things to come. The same goes for friends, relationships, and emotional baggage. Know when to let go of people that you have outgrown or who somehow weigh you down.

Read more words of wisdom from dear ♥ chanteuse ♥. Thank you.