VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

In truth there is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorn
New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them [...]

That’s how I like to see it - religion flanked on either side by freedom and liberty. Liberty of religious belief and expression, freedom of religion from government intervention and freedom of government from religious intervention. Freedom of thought, freedom of mind, freedom of belief.
When I was a kid, it was very common for us [...]

Well, I’ve been resisting this for some time, but I’ve got a few friends at MySpace so I feel as though I should join up and participate, at least in a nominal way.
My blog at MySpace will just be to collect little bits of quotations.
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http://www.myspace.com/virushead
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I’m out of books to read. I’ve read everything I have, some things two or three times. Today I reread Douglas Coupland’s Life After God. These are the two passages that struck me, compellingly, again.
Our conversations are never easy, but as I — we — get older, we are all finding that our conversations must [...]

“You were in Baghdad for six hours. You weren’t even in the real Baghdad. You were in the Green Zone. That’s like going to the Olive Garden and saying you’ve been to Italy.”
— Jon Stewart,
On Bush limiting his Iraq visit to Baghdad’s Green Zone,
Jun. 15, 2006
“That’s his privilege as Vice President. He was tough, demanding, [...]

“And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, ‘O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.’”
–from Monty Python and The Holy Grail

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
– [...]

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
Anyone who [...]