I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!
It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
'Nobody goes to jail. ' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.
We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about