Tag: truth
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I dreamt I Failed Bill Clinton
So I had this dream. My wife and I were staying at a cheap hotel–one of those single story set ups with a swimming pool and a courtyard right by the roadside, on the highway leading out to Duck, North Carolina, which was odd because when we’ve gone to the Outer Banks we stayed way…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Martin Luther King Jr.
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one’s own bosom and in…
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“I Love My Husband, But Here’s Why I Want to Cheat”
I was reading the news from my aggregator, and stumbled upon this article on the Huffington Post, which can always be relied upon to annoy me with petty fluff the perpetuation of which I inevitably encourage by clicking and reading. It’s the old “can’t help staring at a car wreck” thing, except that I don’t…
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Best Damned Quotes #10: André Gide
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide
Old Road Apples 