Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. John Stuart Mill, inaugural address delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 1867 I’m a cradle Catholic. For a lot of people, that implies I don’t know much about the Bible. The long-persisting stigma of the …
She burns like the sun // and I can’t look away // and she’ll burn our horizons // make no mistake. Muse, Sunburn Back when I was first mulling the idea of creating this site, this article was the first I conceived and was planned to be the first put one published post-launch. It’s about …
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw I’m writing this in mid-March, 2021. You’d be able to tell that by the publish date, of course, but its timing is relevant to the subject so I want to make it clear from the onset. For some …
You can’t live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with. Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood I’d like to tell …
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