Chicago – this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
At the Tourist Bureau they talk about the cooling trade winds that caress the shores of Puerto Rico every day and night of the year – but Nelson Otto was a man the trade winds never seemed to touch.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.
Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear.
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Today’s pig is tomorrows bacon!
Anybody who thinks that ‘it doesn’t matter who’s President’ has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world.
I am a road man for the lords of karma.
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.