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Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
So, Dan Johnson, the guy from Kentucky who committed suicide after harassment accusations, apparently had quite an interesting past. There was a series of local articles in progress about him - http://longcon.kycir.org/#chapter-one
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So, Dan Johnson, the guy from Kentucky who committed suicide after harassment accusations, apparently had quite an interesting past. There was a series of local articles in progress about him - http://longcon.kycir.org/#chapter-one
Periodically, one is forced to wonder about the sanity of politicians, and of those who vote for them.
(Did I ever mention that I once brought someone back from the dead? It's true. I did)
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
It all reminds me of writing term papers using lengthy phrases to take up more page space. Like saying "product of conception" rather than "fetus", "allocated sexual identity" instead of "transgender" etc.
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God forbid a medical association should be science based or evidence based, and actually be allowed to say so in public. It might lead the weak-minded and easily fooled to imagine that science and evidence have some sort of value. The word of Jeebus and tRump are all the truth America needs.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
The discarding of specific words in order to prevent the thoughts they embody from being thunk is the very definition of Orwellian. From Orwell:
Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government...
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
This part isn't about anyone currently in position to destroy the country, but the latest from Alaska's family of moose-droppings is both funny and sad.
And the hubbub about Mueller really needs to resolve. People are planning all kinds of protests but 45 swears he's not firing the guy. Of course, I don't believe anything, but everyone's seriously nuts right now.
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