“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Virginia Woolf, On Not Knowing Greek
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Virginia Woolf
Author: Redactor
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, L’être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), 1943, Hazel Barnes, translator
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Sinclair Lewis
“I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station — with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.”
Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922
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Townhall: The Democrats’ Steady SuperPAC
Marco Rubio said something more than a little true about his opposition party, the Democratic. It had to do with the media. But that truth explains a whole lot more than just the mechanics of the much-ridiculed presidential debates. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more reading . . . and viewing.
- Daily Caller: Rubio – Hillary Clinton Has The Ultimate Super PAC Called ‘The Mainstream Media’
- Daily Caller: CBS Host Baffled That Rubio Would Say Clinton Lied About Benghazi
- YouTube: Jim Jordan GRILLS Hillary Clinton About Video
- Townhall: Let’s Repeal Freedom of Speech?
- Townhall: Her Majesty Hillary’s Speech Police
- Townhall: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Campaign Finance Regs
- Text of Senate Joint Resolution 19
- Reason: Democrats Fail to Amend the First Amendment
- YouTube: Hillary Clinton recalls SNL parody, “Does Obama want pillow?”
- Yahoo: What happened to SNL Obama pillow video?
- Politico: “SNL” skits raise doubts about neutrality
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Smedley Butler
“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket
, 1935
There are a lot of adults who want to ruin a fun time for your kids — and you. But you can fight back, without harm to anyone! From The Rebel Media:
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Smedley Butler
“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.”
Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket
, 1935
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Sinclair Lewis
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920).
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Séquestrés d’Altona: A Play in Five Acts, 1960
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Charles Willeford
Just tell the truth, and they’ll accuse you of writing black humor.
Charles Willeford, personal motto, quoted in Marshall Jon Fisher, “The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction,” The Atlantic Monthly, May 2000.