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The Light At The End Of The Tunnel

May 16, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of food, clothing, electricity, gas and oil, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

My take on this:

The government wouldn’t turn off the light at the end of the tunnel because it’s part of an earmarked project attached to a critical spending bill. It would then get moved to somebody else’s budget, where it would be lost in the crunch. No one would realize everybody had left that tunnel for the bigger tunnel, and left the light on. Somebody might come thru at some point and change the incandescent bulb for a compact fluorescent, but the paperwork would get lost, so no one would still know it was left on.

Filed Under: Commentary

Masters of our fate

May 9, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

[T]he people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

Spending the Weekend in Burned-out Buildings

May 2, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

(Originally published in May, 2008)

What is an acrophobe doing leading a team down an almost totally black stairwell, one with walls but no railings on either side, in a burned out building? I’m glad you asked. Since I had gone up an almost totally black stairwell leading a team, we all kinda wanted to go back the other way. I had no flashlight, altho some of my team members did. I’ve never done live D&D, [Read more…]

Filed Under: General blither

Imagination

April 25, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain

Filed Under: Quotes

Anarchists?

April 18, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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