I'm an old man, in my last years after a long life of glorious failure and dubious success. Somebody asked: "What life wisdom did you learn?" So for my next lifetime, I'd say: Dare to be real. Live daily "right here now." Don't hold fear inside. Speak your truth out loud. Always choose kindness.
09:24 AM - Feb 03, 2023
A GOP state senator entered a bill to fly the Confederate flag over government buildings. His office said he did it “accidentally.” Accidents do happen. Like when you accidentally find eye holes in your sheets, or shoe polish on your face. Or you learn Harry Potter is a wizard, and you say “Grand!”
08:21 AM - Mar 22, 2023
Now hear this mighty voice . . .
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Muriel Vieux @MurielVieuxI never knew I cared about politics01:21 PM - Mar 20, 2023
Until a madman was elected
I never knew I was an activist
Until a black man was murdered
I never knew I was a Patriot
Until traitors attacked the Capitol
March 20th, 2023
Muriel Vieux
#TheAmericanHaitianPoet
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08:50 PM - Mar 21, 2023
This is what compassion looks like . . .
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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenzaRandom but I still can’t get over how hurt Courtney B. Vance looked when Angela Bassett lost. We all saw how hurt she was, rightly so, but he was like stricken too. We’ve all been there when our person was going through something and we were helpless. It just hits me. What a beautiful #goals couple.07:50 PM - Mar 21, 2023
08:07 PM - Mar 21, 2023
When asked about Trump inciting mobs, Mike Pence said: “The American people have a constitutional right to peaceably assemble.” When asked: “But what if they get violent, even kill police?,” he said: “Indiana has a state insect, the firefly, but no state fish. Have you ever visited French Lick?”
05:13 PM - Mar 21, 2023
I’m not sure these Republicans can win on the platform “WE HATE KINDNESS.”
09:47 AM - Mar 17, 2023
Trey Gowdy said all Trump did was pay for sex—which is like saying all John Wilkes Booth did was disrupt a performance.
08:39 AM - Mar 21, 2023
I’ve finalized my divorce from Twitter. No need here to explain why. I tried Mastodon, Post, and Tribel—nope, not for me. Others (like Bluesky) may come, but just say no. Spoutible alone has this rich diversity, civility, wit, spirit, community. Spoutible is now my forever home. #ByeByeTwitter
01:56 PM - Mar 20, 2023
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Elon Musk keeps fiddling with Twitter to squeeze money from users. In defense, he said: “There is great wisdom to the old saying: ‘You get what you pay for’”—which makes it 100% impossible he paid $44 billion to buy Twitter.
09:30 AM - Mar 20, 2023
History has very few examples where a person got killed by a crazed book.
08:54 AM - Mar 20, 2023
05:41 PM - Mar 19, 2023
DJ Trump is seeking the just-right abusive nickname for Ron DeSantis to make him look ridiculous.
Maybe the most damaging thing to call Ron DeSantis is Ron DeSantis.
Maybe the most damaging thing to call Ron DeSantis is Ron DeSantis.
08:58 AM - Mar 19, 2023
Guns don’t kill people—it’s ideas and words. People can drop dead on the spot if somebody nearby thinks something, or says it out loud.
08:49 AM - Mar 19, 2023
If Mike Pence runs for President, his campaign slogan will be: “Whatever.”
08:30 AM - Mar 19, 2023
Maybe you can't always "be here now"--
at least try to "be here" now and then.
at least try to "be here" now and then.
02:24 PM - Mar 18, 2023
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
--George Orwell [?]
--George Orwell [?]
02:08 PM - Mar 18, 2023
Our overlords delete black history from schools so white people don’t “feel uncomfortable.” (Are they now the “snowflakes”?) That’s absolute nonsense. Real history is true and honest; real learning makes you uneasy and changed. You “learn by suffering”—or, you just stay ignorant, like you started.
01:00 PM - Mar 17, 2023
Mike Pence acted like every mean-spirited Republican and said Pete Buttigieg “can’t take a joke.” Hee-haw! Did he think “Hang Mike Pence” was a joke, too? He nearly got lynched by a fiery mob incited by DJT, but still he refuses to testify. Hey, it’s Mike Pence: He just hangs around.
11:19 AM - Mar 17, 2023
I’m not sure these Republicans can win on the platform “WE HATE KINDNESS.”
09:47 AM - Mar 17, 2023
Don’t miss the newly-released. long-awaited album of exciting music, “GOP Gone Wild.” Hear upbeat songs like:
Burn Book Burn
Fly Me to Cancun
Party Like It’s 1954
Another Tax Bites the Dust
Both Sides Now Everything
Subpoena What Subpoena?
The First Cut Is the Deepest (the Medicare Song)
Burn Book Burn
Fly Me to Cancun
Party Like It’s 1954
Another Tax Bites the Dust
Both Sides Now Everything
Subpoena What Subpoena?
The First Cut Is the Deepest (the Medicare Song)
08:46 AM - Mar 17, 2023
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From a great movie, "The Princess Bride" (1987)
🗡️ As you wish.
🗡️ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
🗡️ I hate for people to die embarrassed.
🗡️ Have fun stormin’ the castle.
🗡️ Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
🗡️ As you wish.
🗡️ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
🗡️ I hate for people to die embarrassed.
🗡️ Have fun stormin’ the castle.
🗡️ Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
06:50 PM - Mar 16, 2023
Our back view is a large pond where diverse critters live (birds, gators). In the center is an island with four tall palm trees where dozens of (mostly) egrets roost at night. Last month, a Great Blue Heron pair took over the top of one palm tree and built a nest. Today, they boast two new chicks.
04:34 PM - Mar 16, 2023
For Women’s History Month, let’s honor Grace Hopper, female admiral in the U.S. Navy and brilliant pioneer in computer programming. She helped develop the UNIVAC computer and COBOL compilers. When she once found a moth inside a computer, she gave us our word for a glitch in a program—a “bug.”
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992): A legacy of innovation and service | YaleNews
On Feb. 11, President Peter Salovey announced that he and the Yale Corporation had voted to change the name of Calhoun College, one of the university's undergraduate residential colleges, to honor alumna Grace Murray Hopper. Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was a computer pioneer and naval officer.
12:29 PM - Mar 16, 2023
Scientists warn Florida is menaced by a huge blob, which rots, spreads a disgusting sludge, and smells like flatulence. Allegedly, this brown blob is sargassum algae—though locals around Mar-a-Lago say that’s just a cover story.
09:08 AM - Mar 16, 2023
"Ted Lasso," Episode 1, Season 3 is now available (Apple TV+). We just watched it. Great news: It’s as good as ever! Go AFC Richmond! ⚽️😉
04:16 PM - Mar 15, 2023
Death-of-Irony Alert: A pro-Trump PAC filed a complaint against Ron DeSantis for violating state ethics and election laws by using Florida taxpayers’ funds to run a “shadow campaign” for President.
In a related story, Lord Voldemort said Lucius Malfoy is “ugly and mean.”
In a related story, Lord Voldemort said Lucius Malfoy is “ugly and mean.”
02:37 PM - Mar 15, 2023
Breathtaking jazz piano solo: “Don’t Bame Me” (Live in Denmark, 1966) by the incomparable virtuoso Thelonious Monk.
Thelonious Monk Don't Blame Me (Live in Denmark) - YouTube
Thelonious Monk performs “Don’t Blame Me” live in Denmark in 1966Follow Thelonious Monk, get merch and more: http://linktr.ee/theloniousmonk Thelonious Monk:...
12:29 PM - Mar 15, 2023
