Lillian Hellman Quote – I Will Not Cut My Conscience
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” – Lillian Hellman
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A BIG MARKET
Americans spend $100 billion annually on cocaine, heroin, pot and meth. Many users spend small amounts at a time—$10 may buy a day’s supply of heroin, for instance. But over time users may build a tolerance to a drug and need more of it to feel high.
Read moreWillard Gaylin Quote – Expressing Anger
“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” – Willard Gaylin
Read moreJodi Picoult Quote – Heroes
“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead […]
Read moreMillennial Views
The lower you go on the generational totem pole, the more ethnically diverse you get. Young adults between 18-24 (so-called Millennial) don’t like racial labels because they don’t recognize the dividing lines of the past—they are the vanguard of a “colorblind” culture. But their wildly . diverse life experiences have created an almost-random pattern of values and beliefs, including: • […]
Read moreCartoon – Birth To Death In A Box
Poem – Fast Lane (By David Russell)
Fast Lane Let’s get in the fast lane – Rip off the doors and slice the breezes; Let’s get in the fast lane – Thread the highway through a needle. We can loop the date-line In a coral reef-knot; Turn our jet-lag inside out, Inverted, oblique, reversed. Let’s fly an exploding plane, Turn on our parachutes – Chrysanthemums […]
Read moreAngela Carter Quote – What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously
“What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously.” – Angela Carter
Read morePoem – Two-Faced Tanning (By David Russell)
Two-Faced Tanning (Moral Majority S/M) Time was – One got the slipper, cane and strap – And now, in honest balance of corrected afterthought, Admits that one was fired by sting and weal And thought that someone got a turn-on; “This hurts me more than it hurts you!” Yes: heartfelt behind the irony. Now all of this is […]
Read moreKathleen Winsor Quote – Charm
“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.” – Kathleen Winsor
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