Grandpa: It’s an unjust world. Kind people endure lives of unrecompensed desolation, while the deeds of the wicked go on and on, day after day, without any comeuppance in this world or the next. (Narrator: Grandpa shares his most useful lifehack.)
Iputmilkinearigrey: Parents got a new cat they named Lord Montague, and this morning I heard my dad in the other room say, “I would have to advise against that decision, my Lord,” followed by a crashing sound.
David Frum: You can warn your friend that he’s being conned and he will get angry at you. And when the whole thing comes crashing down and he loses his money and he can no longer deny that you were right he will never forgive you. He will forgive the crook, but he will not forgive the people who warned him about the crook. The crook just took his money, but you made him feel dumb.
Tiny joys that aren’t so tiny: 1. Fresh sheets. 2. A long shower. 3. Real belly laughs. 4. Someone checking in. 5. That first sip of coffee. 6. A song you forgot you loved.
“When John McCain took the mic away from the woman lying about Obama, and came to Obama’s defense, that was the best of American politics. There is not a single Republican member of Congress who will take the mic from Trump. That’s the worst of American politics.”
Batman (1950s PSA): Don’t believe those crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country. Remember our American heritage of freedom and equality.
safespace: I’m so tired of feeling like a babysitter. My managers don’t manage and don’t understand. I have a job to do. Does anyone ever grow up?
Caroline Caldwell: “In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.”
Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd break into a distillery. Bugs turns to Elmer and says, “Is this whiskey?” Elmer says, “Yeah, but not as whiskey as wobbing a bank.”
Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century: “My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to cope with a problem, does so, and thereby changes their personality, character, or evaluations in some measure because the coping has forced them to revise their thinking. How they cope with it, I can’t plot in advance because that depends on their character, and I don’t know what their character is until I get acquainted with them.”
Ozzy Osbourne: Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love, and forget how to hate.
CryptoNaturalist: Society is powered by empathy, by an understanding that diverse lives, goals, and perspectives deserve our consideration, respect, and mutual protection. This empathy is not just rooted in idealism; it’s rooted in the fundamental truth that our shared needs and fates outweigh our differences. This is true for human societies. It’s also true for our broader fellowships of life. Folks you have never met grow your food and build our technologies. Creatures you do not see create your oxygen. It’s a dangerous failure of imagination to forget the need we have for one another.