The Crow's Eye: Short Memories

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Jan 14, 2011

Short Memories

Courtesy friend's email

EDIT - credit to Violet Socks, as well. Didn't see her posting of the same.

5 comments:

almostinfamous said...: but Jack, targets are not the same as crosshairs. (insert 500 word free association about how crosshairs are relevant and targets are not); January 15, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Randal Graves said...: And now for something completely un-different.; January 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM
fish said...: You must have missed SEK's clear and rational explanation of why it is bad when conservatives do it but fine when liberals do it...; January 16, 2011 at 12:24 AM
Jack Crow said...: That was painful, fish.; January 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM
fish said...: Indeed. Sorry about that.; January 17, 2011 at 5:54 PM