Cartoon – Nobody Gets Away With Everything
Author: Antarctica Journal
John Kenneth Galbraith Quote – Stand Firmly On Principle
“If you hear someone in public life say that he is going to stand firmly on principle, you should take cover, and warn others to do the same.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
Read moreAMERICA’S LETHAL COCKTAIL PARTY
By the mid-1920s, the American government was at its wit’s end. The era’s strict Prohibition laws had proved futile. Americans were still drinking; they were just doing so on the sly, frequenting speakeasies and buying alcohol from crime syndicates. Gangs would steal large quantities of industrial alcohol—used for everything from fueling machines to sterilizing instruments— then redistill the hooch to […]
Read moreQuote – Love and Laughter
“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.” August Wilson
Read moreSpalding Gray Quote – No One Really Believes It
“Everybody knows they are going to die, but no one really believes it.” – Spalding Gray
Read moreMass Shooting Fatalities
At least 235 people have died in 75 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in December 2012.
Read morePoem – Hazardous Voyage (By Gary Beck)
Aspirations gone, little remains. Daily routine the dwindling hope things will get better. Aging, illness, terrorism, tainting tomorrows, another vessel lost on uncharted seas. Author Bio: ‘Temporal Dreams’ is an unpublished poetry collection that reveals our preoccupation with material things, sometimes to excess. Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as […]
Read moreGeorge Orwell Quote – Human Beings Want To Be Good
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.” – George Orwell
Read morePoem – Strangers Waiting For 2 Different Trains (By Frank De Canio)
Strangers Waiting For 2 Different Trains We both spent hours waiting on the line for a ticket to Shakespeare in the Park. I saw her on the blades of grass, supine while I stood up behind her on a lark I’d talk to her. “What’s the play about,” she asked, before I knelt on down beside her to explain, ‘The […]
Read moreBenjamin Disraeli Quote – Reveal To Him His Own
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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