Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
"...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
I tried to fathom being strapped to a death bed and having a needle slid into my veins, all the while knowing that my death was being stage handled as an illustration of power.
I can't do it. I know I'm going to die. I understand that there's a slim chance that I might even be murdered.
I cannot really wrap my thoughts around being executed after a four hour procedural delay.
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I recall reading this article some time ago... I confess I subscribe to this literary supplement...
The death penalty is an ugly punctuation mark on a vulgar system of incarceration that we tolerate in this country.
I tried to fathom being strapped to a death bed and having a needle slid into my veins, all the while knowing that my death was being stage handled as an illustration of power.
I can't do it. I know I'm going to die. I understand that there's a slim chance that I might even be murdered.
I cannot really wrap my thoughts around being executed after a four hour procedural delay.
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