The Unoriginal Muse

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. -- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)

Archive for April, 2007

20 Apr

Quote of the moment [2]

Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. – Herodotus

Perhaps this is why so many are so eager to jump on any movement that gives them the illusion of control over their lives…

14 Apr

Ignorance is strength.

Hatred is love. Peace is war. How else can we explain the attitude of certain political types toward both christianity and Islam, when the words of a known warmonger, hater, murderer are called peaceful, yet those of Jesus, who said “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”, who preached love for our […]

12 Apr

If ‘now’ were ‘then’…

BBC News 11th of July 1940

BERLIN. The office of the Fuhrer today released a scathing condemnation of the British Air Brigade, also known as the ‘Royal Air Force’, for their part in ongoing offenses against French coastal towns and ports. The scathing rebuke comes just hours after the British government claimed that the German Luftwaffe […]

12 Apr

Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object

Updated!

Here’s one for the books. My brother’s wife is being threatened with deportation. They married some time last year, in Paraguay, and then came here. They’ve since had a baby which I may or may not have mentioned - need to put up some pictures of him. He’s cute.

Recently they found out that their marriage […]

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