Hitchhiker’s Guide

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Unless it's Erskin Caldwell or Truman Capote or Tennessee Williams or Mark Twain...Then that is somehow different...

"What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability." - Charles Bukowski

"The Roy Cohn school of management: You demonize, demonize, demonize, and give credit to no one else. It's the antithesis of good leadership, it's the antithesis of good character, it's the antithesis of being ethical, but that's what Trump is" -- Mark Cuban #RepublicanParty

It's said that the Roy Cohn playbook doesn't work with science, but convincing people that science, when it disagrees with you, is dark magic controlled by jews and immigrants and liberals, does.....

If Obama had been having conversations with Putin as a private citizen while sitting on a cache of top secret national security documents, there would be riots in the street. The proud boys would be constructing a gallows on Obamas front yard.

They sincerely believe that they know what's best for all of us. Smart people can function, make billions, get invited to all the right parties, and hold views which are reckless, unhinged, delusional, paranoid, destructive.

“Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” — Miles Davis

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan

Vladmir Putin knows that Trump is a weak person and that all he has to do is press the right buttons, i.e. praise, acknowledgment of the right kind, etc... and Donald will do whatever he wants. Dismantle NATO? Sure Vlad! #RepublicanParty

What’s your favorite song with a strong political message? My choice: Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope." ✍️ - Stephen Hawking

Photo: Yousuf Karsh

“Maybe everybody needs Russians. I’ll bet even in Russia they need Russians. Maybe they call it Americans.” -- John Steinbeck - Travels With Charley

#Obama had a bigger crowd size

Nawowow @nawowow

It's a way easy bet to say that Ronald Reagan is casting his vote for Kamala Harris (no other option). If you can appreciate what the Cold War was about, and who the bad guys are, you'd understand this. #RepublicanParty

Zelensky showing barely concealed disdain for a fool that has never cracked a history book.

"Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ~ George Orwell