Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Blog in the Time of Cholera


For the record, I began blogging 15 years ago today. And have been at it pretty much every day since.

A few years after that I began fiddling with Photoshop.

My first post was this quote by H. L. Mencken: "Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake."

Still seems like a good policy.

Stay safe everyone.



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7 comments:

threemma said...

Mencken - "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

rapier said...

Every single one of these virus 'deaths' happened because they wanted to make Trump look bad. They were all traitors.

Meremark said...

In every heart there's a touch o' larceny.

- probably Robt Burns

Neo Tuxedo said...

Pietro sighed. "What I believe," he said, "is a matter between me and my Creator, and we will discuss it at length when we meet face to face, and if He disagrees with me, I will immediately defer to His judgment, since He has much more experience and vaster knowledge."

There was a silence. The bay was as tranquil as an old man saying his rosary. Then a pelican dove into the water and came up with a fish in its mouth, chewing it. "Just another murder," but part of nature, part of God's plan.


-- Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume One: The Earth Will Shake

Robt said...

Not only have I seen his ratings.

I am stuck with his accomplishments of failure.

Or how Our third wife, first lady said, "be best" no matter how lacking your best is.

R White said...

Being a progressive political junkie these days has become a lonely, ostracized hobby to have where facts, history and a rational opinion no longer matter. Only owning your opposition with insults and imagined grievances while watching current events unfold like that of a wrestlemania tag-team match. - me

Robt said...

Well I agree with the time passing you describe.

It is merely a small past time.
Try having a drink with McConnell. Try asking your republican senator why he would disrespect a federal appeals court judge with a stellar record in such a disrespectful manner by not even sitting down with and interviewing.
Judge Garland spit on because Obama nominated him? Then that same senator expects everyone else to respect him? Demands I respect kavanaugh?

Just know, blogging or writing your congressman, local Paper editors. Are glimpses of what you see on a blog comment here.

Perhaps you might want to explain further your entire life's post here about others that post?

I mean when I quit drinking. I stopped going to bars.