To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past.

That was one of the great mechanical realities Eric Blair--writing as George Orwell--gave us in the book 1984The great philosophical reality he gave us, Mr. Bush, may sound as familiar to you, as it has lately begun to sound familiar to me ( Read more... )

"There is literally no one alive that I do not hate right now."

--Toby Ziegler, The West Wing, "Five Votes Down"

"Malicia, do you understand? This isn't a story," said Keith, as patiently as he could. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. Real life isn't a story. There isn't some kind of... of magic that keeps you safe and makes crooks look the other way and not hit you too hard and tie you up next to a handy knife and not kill you. Do you understand ( Read more... )

"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet."

--Jane Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Smith

"Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn; tell us the lesson that we should learn. And the moral of today's story is:

"If at first you don't succeed, blame it on your parents."

--Yakko Warner, "Wheel of Morality", Animaniacs

"Everything has its time, and everything dies."

--The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The End of the World"

"Everybody lies."

--Greg House, House, M.D.

Because sometimes, you need a little silliness in your day.
"Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, Pope Benedict released his first major policy initiative: an instruction that states that men with deep-seated homosexual tendencies could not be priests, while those with transitory tendencies could be, thereby proving the transitive property of gayness ( Read more... )

People partition off their lands by means of boundaries, but no one can partition off the all-embracing sky overhead. The indivisible sky surrounds all and includes all. So people in ignorance say, "My religion is the only one, my religion is the best." But when a heart is illumined by true knowledge, it knows that above all these wars of sects ( Read more... )