Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non?winning front?runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self?gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig?flipped ding?dongs in the history of the Republic.
John Barnes
Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean? Aura asked. On construction sites. Is that coffee ready?
satire irony silliness
So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.
marriage divorce
Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
pain importance
I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?
life people
satire
People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is.. They may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.
rights pain principles people work
And just like this, all of a sudden, your people and mine will begin to talk? It only looks sudden from some places. Running off a cliff is sudden if you don't know it's there, even if you have been running toward it for days. That's not a reassuring metaphor. It isn't meant to be.
places people
Human beings always say they prefer peace, but it takes a saint to talk us into not assaulting our neighbors.
peace
There is a saying among those of us who have careers with the Council of Humanity that skiers, cooks, painters, and diplomats must work with what is in front of them.
work
Shan had always said that in any multiple choice about human motivation, the real answer was always all of the above.
choice motivation
If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.
culture
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