Apologize to a Cow  

Thanks to vampire_kitty for her dedication to offended livestock.

" I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation."

Michael Bakunin
    --The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution

http://www.philosophers.co.uk/quotations/quoteaday.htm

Today, I got a garage sale video of "The Outsiders" to send to my niece, who's fourteen. That's about the right age to appreciate young and misunderstood Patrick Swaze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estavez, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Leif Garrett, Rob Lowe, et al in denim and black leather. Diane Lane was gorgeous, but most of the eye candy is for the ladies.

I think I sent my niece a copy of the book, but I never get any feedback. You cast your bread on the water .

Susie Hinton was fifteen when she wrote it. The story goes that she was severely criticized for an English paper in school and went home that afternoon to find a letter of acceptance from her publisher. For marketing purposes, she was called "S.E. Hinton" and her photo wasn't put on the book cover.

Francis Ford Coppola did a bang-up job on the movie. I notice more each time I see it.

I also purchased a hassock which effectively converts my favorite armchair into a recliner at just the right height that I can still see the TV over my feet. Fine entertainment and dirty socks don't complement each other.

It opens for storage, so when company comes at short notice I can toss my beer cans into the hassock.

From http://www.callahanonline.com/index.html John Callahan draws cartoons to offend everybody, then publishes the hatemail he receives online.

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

Erich Fromm
    --Man For Himself

This is being passed around via email:

>>> Can you imagine  working for a company that has 535 employees
>>> and has the following  statistics:
>>>
>>> * 29 have been accused of spousal  abuse
>>> * 7 have been arrested for fraud
>>> * 19 have been  accused of writing bad checks
>>> * 117 have directly or indirectly  bankrupted at least 2 businesses
>>> * 3 have done time for  assault
>>> * 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
>>> a.. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
>>> * 8 have  been arrested for shoplifting
>>> * 21 are currently defendants in  lawsuits
>>> * 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last  year
>>>
>>> Can you guess which organization this is?
>>>
>>> Give up yet?
>>>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> a.. It's the 535 members of the United  States
>>> Congress. The same group of idiots that crank out hundreds  of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in  line.

This is Dorothy Day, who started the Catholic Workers. Bio. photos usually show her as a dignified older lady, but I think she was especially beautiful when she was young.

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