Butch Hancock on Texas Christianity

“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”  ~ Butch Hancock, Musician, the Flatlanders

Roosevelt: People vs Government

“I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote of the Day: 2/3/10

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”  ~ Emma Goldman

Quote of the Day: 1/14/10

“…our hyper-emphasis on competition in all aspects of our public life leads immediately and inevitably to insecurity and hatred.  If you believe that the fundamental organizing principle of the world is competition (or if the fundamental organizing principle of your society is competition) you will perceive the world as full of ruthless competitors, all of [...]

Victims & Silence

“If the first rule of a dysfunctional system is ‘Don’t talk about it,’ then our primary goal should be to tell the truth, to be as honest as we can manage to be.  When I read something truthful, something real, I breathe a deep sigh and say, ‘Fantastic — I wasn’t mad or alone in [...]

Quote of the Day: 12/18/09

“Mythological ideas with their extraordinary symbolism evidently reach far into the human psyche . . . where reason, will and good intentions never penetrate.”   ~ C.G. Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy (CW 16 15)      (from Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth by Glen Robert Gill)

Quote of the Day: 12/16/09

“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”  ~ Michel Houellebecq’s H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life     From [...]

JFK: Assassination of a Nation’s Soul

Here is an awesome JFK quote from Matt Cardin’s In serving his vision of truth, the artist best serves his nation: These may be my favorite words ever spoken by an American President. They come from a speech delivered by John F. Kennedy on October 26, 1963 — less than a month before his death — [...]

Quote of the Day: 12/11/09

A native of Africa is said to view his surroundings as pulsing with a purpose, a life, that is actually within himself; once these childish projections are withdrawn, he sees that the world is dead and that life resides solely within himself.  When he reaches this sophisticated point he is said to be either mature [...]

Quote of the Day: 12/10/09

The problem with displacing the supernatural “back” into the realm of psychology . . . is that it remains precisely that: only a displacement. The unearthliness, the charisma, the devastating noumenon of the supernatural is conserved.  One cannot speak in the end, it seems to me, of a “decline in magic” in post-Enlightenment Western culture, [...]