"No one who has true fiends can know what true solitude means, even if the whole world surrounding him should consist of adversaries.  Alas, I can see that you do not know what it means to be alone.  Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or publio opinions--in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has ( Read more... )

"Do we have to kill every slug, ant, sowbug, earwig, aphid, wasp ( Read more... )

"How man of us could grow our own food, grind our own flour, make our own cheese, weave our own cloth, sew our own clothes, build our own houses, and create physical and social infrastructure without heavy machinery, computers, electricity, or petroleum?  What we've created in the industrialized west is functional dependence,based on a petulant, ( Read more... )

From the fetish flea fair:

"I also picture her as one of those women that has 90 million stuffed toys in the bedroom and when she moves them out of the way (to fuck one would hope) she talks to them - 'C'mon Mister Tiddly Widdly, Mama's honey pot's gonna get a stirring to-night!'"

"Predestination and free wilers were tied in the 4th quarter last time I checked." --Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

"You go away to a liberal college, you have a bisexual roommate, you forget about god?  Don't worry, it happens to everybody."  --License To Wed

"Few things are less appetizing than a man four years my father's junior, a dumpy, pasty, greedy-eyed man in a gray suit who says he doesn't care to screw fat women because they're harder to overpower, asking me over a big bowl of warm apple crisp if I like anal sex." --Motherjones.com

"Sometimes I dream that my cock is a triple masted Spanish galleon..." --Evan Stone as Captain Edward Reynolds, Pirates

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"Our children will have more of almost everything, with one glaring exception: They wont have more time in the day.  As income and wages increase, the cost of time will continue to grow and so will the sense that time is scarce and that life proceeds at a faster pace than in the past." --The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida

"Where I grew up, we were conditioned to play the roles we were dealt.  We were not encouraged to create and build our visions, but rather to fit into the visions of a select few.  I like to say that we were "institutionalized" individuals--because institutions defined our lives." --The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida