Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each other as we love ourselves. It’s possible, however, that we live in a post-accepting-bigotry-cloaking-itself-in-the-raiments-of-Christ America. And, you know. I can live in that America just fine.
When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, “How will this affect my piano playing?” and he said, “Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to play the piano,” and I said, “Wow! I wasn’t able to before!” And then they gassed me.
Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.
In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?
Well, I’m sorry you might possibly be out a bit of money, Jack,” Isabel said. “Jesus, Isabel,” Holloway said. He opened the door. “A bit of money? Try at least a couple billion credits. That’s billion, with a b. Saying that’s a bit of money is like saying a forest fire is a nice way to roast some marshmallows.
The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.
I don’t look smug.” “You always look smug. You have resting smug face.
Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.
Breakfast was amazing, and I say that having been married to a woman who could make a breakfast spread that would have made Gandhi stop a fast.
Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.
I’m not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.
I was just talking about you,” Cardenia said, coming up to him. “To your imaginary friends, I see.” “They’re not imaginary. They’re just not real.” “Very subtle distinction.
It’s not a bad idea.” “It’s a terrible idea,” Oi said. “It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.
The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.
How much did you love her?” Jane asked. “Your wife. Kathy. When people are married for a long time, maybe they stay together out of habit.” “Sometimes they do,” I said. “But I loved her very much. All the time we were married. I love her now.
The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic.
Well, life is like that sometimes”, Isabel said. “We learn things too late, and then we don’t get to use them.
You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn.
Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.
The supply transport’s on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I’m just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died.