Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Do you have a sweet truth?
You can call your pet dog “Duck” but it won’t make him quack.
Posted by Jeremy on from Taiwan 04/11 at 05:50 AMan old scottish saying… there is no such thing as bad weather, there is only the wrong clothes.
and i know its an old joke but...walk a mile in the shoes of someone you don’t like and you will be a mile away from them and you will have their shoes.
Posted by michael on from exile 04/11 at 06:22 AMlink for the day too. for my money dahr jamail is one of the best things to come out of blog world…
Posted by michael on from exile 04/11 at 06:54 AMI agree about Dahr Jamail, Michael.
Some “truisms” (?)
Guilty Dogs Bark First.
Cash is the prerogative of the very rich and the very poor.
9 out of ten people are good 9/10 of the time, bad 1/10 of the time; 1 out of ten people is bad 9/10 of the time and good 1/10 of the time.
(I have a better opinion of people.)No one asks to be born, but we are all born somewhere.
Isms are not always true.
Tariq Ali:
“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco
http://tinyurl.com/mbzstPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 04/11 at 08:23 AMgreat minds think alike…
Here’s an email I sent out this morning before coming here to Mick’s. The person was making some sort of joke about living close to Mexico. He said, “don’t we all?” My response:
you live IN Mexico, Drew...at least it was not so long ago.
On this whole immigration deal...isn’t it funny that we whites are calling Mexicans immigrants. Most of those who cross have bloodlines that go back to those who first arrived on this soil. While most of us have family that arrived 100-150 years ago.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/11 at 08:51 AMSadistic case of US soldiers murdering a Reuters sound man:
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/11 at 11:20 AM“The firmest fayth is found in fewest woordes.”
--Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (c. 1540-1607)
Less said, the better.
Also:
“Love me less, love me longer.”
--Italian proverb
The blogosphere contains no one to exceed our host. Others are merely non-vegan.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 04/11 at 11:43 AMTruisms (?) courtesy of the narrator of Albert Camus’ The Fall:
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“The look of success, when worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.”
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
“Authors of confessions write especially to avoid confessing.”
“There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living. That’s why crime always finds lawyers, and innocence only rarely.”
“,,,truth, cher ami, is a colossal bore.”
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 04/11 at 11:53 AMMy truism is a statement my mother frequently made, so I have to translate it from German:
‘There is no pity worse than self-pity’.Hi from down under where it is 4:37 am on a reasonably mild Wednesday morning - and ‘welcome’ to Jeremy, Michael, Robert B. Livingston, Jos, Mudge, Keir and .. Mickey - mes chers amis/expendables.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 04/11 at 01:38 PMThanks, all...great stuff. And Mudge: You are too kind.
I’ll be back later. Gotta get outside in this incredible weather.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/11 at 02:08 PMBtw, Expendables, my Parenti review was posted at http://www.gnn.tv and this has brought lots of new visitors here today. So, let’s encourage our new friends to return and join in the fun.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/11 at 04:25 PMHow great and telling is this Parenti quote that you pointed out, Mick:
‘How many of you have been exposed to this perspective in your many other social science courses?’ Of the forty students—mostly seniors and juniors who had taken many other courses in political science, economics, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and mass communications—not one hand went up (a measure of the level of ideological diversity at Cornell). Then I asked the students, ‘How many of you complained to your other instructors that you were getting only one side?’ Again not a hand was raised, causing me to say, ‘So your protest is not really that you’re getting only one side but that, for the first time, you’re departing from that one side and are being exposed to another view and you don’t like it.’
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/11 at 04:31 PM“War is hell”
I consider it a truism. Others apparently don’t.
Irony Alert:
At the shooting range I found that they did not have any ammunition for a rifle that I own. In fact, they said I would be lucky to find the ammunition anywhere. Apparently all of it is being sent to Venezuela.“I wonder who is fighting whom?” I asked.
“They’re just fighting each other, like everywhere else.” was the reply.Yeah, Right!
By the way, Deadeye Dick Cheney was roundly booed at the Nationals home opener when he threw out the first pitch.
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 04/11 at 05:29 PM“Anyone who talks about the future is a bastard.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline“Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.”
“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It’s a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”
- Henry Miller
Posted by owen on from gyarrcelona 04/11 at 06:29 PMThe number of hits here today was something out of the “old” days. I’m gonna be away next week visiting family but after that, maybe we’re headed back to full house here.
Thanks, everyone. Lots of links tomorrow. Spread the word.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/11 at 08:03 PMAmerican troops are in 130 nations. Bush is the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. Can Bush name the 130 countries into which troops are deployed? Can he tell the public what they are doing there? If not how is he able to perform his job as commander in chief?
Posted by Jack Rabbit on from Charlottesville, Virginia 04/11 at 09:04 PM“They are not crossing the border…
the border crossed them”
I like that RMJ.
I think that statement could also qualify as a tautology.
Posted by Fiona on from 04/11 at 11:02 PMFrom Delmore Schwartz - :Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day”, and as quoted by Malcolm McDowell in that Star Trek movie where Kirk died:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.Yeah, this is coming to mind because I’m unemployed, in the same literary rut I’ve been in for the past twenty years, and I turn 35 next month.
Welcome, all potential new Expendables! Stick around and see what happens on Mickey’s comments board!
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/12 at 02:30 AMTruism: Inconsistencies in words and deeds are a clear indication of malfunctions in organizations. America’s goals must be clearly stated, secrecy minimized to only what is necessary, and deeds absolutely synchronized with the stated goals.
Folks, I’ve got some radical shit to say, please check it out at the blog posted.
http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/
Posted by Jack Rabbit on from Charlottesville, Virginia 05/02 at 11:12 PM
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