"Grandpa's library was a fine dark place bricked in with books, so anything could happen and usually did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
Ray Bradbury Farewell Summer, novel
"In a moment the door opened again and Ellen Macintosh came in. Maybe you don't like tall girls with honey-colored hair and skin like the first strawberry peach the grocer sneaks out of the box for himself. If you don't, I'm sorry for you."
Raymond Chandler Pearls are a Nuisance, short story
"Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps the people."
Harry S. Truman
A broken heart is always new.
It heals, each time, complete.
Without sorrow, or pity, or guile.
I was listening on the radio while the senate voted 57 to 43 to acquit Trump. That tally seems off because, of course, the 57 voted to convict, but fell short. Afterwards, McConnell spoke, excoriating Trump in the harshest words, making the prosecution's case for them, but adding that he voted against conviction because Trump's being out of office made the impeachment unconstitutional. It wasn't. The fact had been argued and voted on, but more importantly, how dare he say that? Let's ignore McConnell's blatant disregard of constitutional requirements during Obama's administration, HOW DARE HE say that THIS was unconstitutional? McConnell engineered the the timing. He said he'd never bring up a trial before January twentieth, thereby insuring that the impeachment was "unconstitutional".
The Democrats also failed to stand up to the reepub leader when it came to calling witnesses. Mitch told them that if they called witnesses, he'd block all of Biden's agenda. So Mitch Heinous Fucker McConnell got what he wanted. Now he'll go on and do everything he can to block Biden's agenda as he did Obama's. It is past time for the Democratic leadership to start playing hardball. They need to get rid of the filibuster and accomplish OUR fucking agenda.
If we don't fight bravely and ruthlessly for democracy in congress, we'll be doing it in the streets.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
"Power concedes nothing without a demand."
Frederick Douglass
"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems
that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
Steve Biko
