"GREAT WEALTH IS ITS OWN NATIONALITY."
Velda Johnston
Saturday, January 31, 2015
A LIFE RERUN-STILL SEARCHING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I started a course on the New Testament. (I don't need many credits to finish my M.Div. degree. I started in 1971.) It's hard getting back into the habit of justifying everything you write. Usually, when I say some outlandishly crazy things about Jesus. and someone challenges me, I just tell them I read it in the Bible. That satisfies 99% of the people I know. And wouldn't you know it, my professor is not one of them.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
HOWARD ZINN QUOTE OF THE DAY
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is
based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty,
but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn
Monday, January 26, 2015
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man
who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of
hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who
work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched
existence.”
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
Super Bowl for the Rich: Upper-Class 91, Middle-Class 9
Super Bowl for the Rich: Upper-Class 91, Middle-Class 9
WELCOME TO THE GAME. IT'S CALLED CAPITALISM, WHERE THE POOR WORK AND THE RICH GET RICH.
WELCOME TO THE GAME. IT'S CALLED CAPITALISM, WHERE THE POOR WORK AND THE RICH GET RICH.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
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