I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allen Poe

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
-Bertrand Russell

What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
-James Branch Cabell

2002-11-23 - 12:00 a.m.

oO Michael Rennie was ill the day...Oo

Life isn�t fair. Life has never been fair. People act irrationally. People can be ignorant and foolish. People hurt each other when they don�t mean to.

No matter how well we know these things intellectually it is always hard to accept.

I wish I could offer more than words. I wish I could actually do something. I wish everything I said in the first two paragraphs wasn�t true. They are though.

You are two of the most remarkable people I know. I love you both. You deserve better.

Klaatu Barada Nicto!

These entries aren�t always meant for you. Sometimes it just builds up inside and I have to let it out someplace.

I wrote a semi-coherent entry a few hours ago, read that one too.


I signed the Pro-Truth Pledge:
please hold me accountable.





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