Recognize that your struggle and your suffering is the same as everyone else’s, I think that’s the beginning of a responsible life. Otherwise, we are in a continual savage battle with each other with no possible solution, political, social, or spiritual.
People often ask me
what is the most effective technique
for transforming their life.
It is a little embarrassing
that after years and years of research
and experimentation,
I have to say that the best answer is—
just be a little kinder.
This hurts the US in the gun deaths per capita stats, the fact that mass murders in other countries are often carried out with bombs https://t.co/HcHykXTOk7
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 30, 2022
Don't women also enjoy sex? I suppose some women like animals more than sex but those are not the women you're going to have a good time with anyway. https://t.co/dIPHFmivBs
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 28, 2022
I mean, if a woman doesn’t want to put meat in her body . . . well, you see where I’m going with this . . .
Also, I would expect the number of meat-eating women to be roughly equal to the number of meat-eating men. How are meat-eating women going to be punished?
The economy is steady and stable. Inflation goes up, GDP goes down, stocks go down — but all in a stable and steady manner. https://t.co/fIGabtAkhs
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 28, 2022
I think the only cases you can make for "systemic racism" are public schools and teacher unions so this is great, great news. https://t.co/WmMuv6dYdy
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 28, 2022
Shannon Brandt, 41, struck and killed [18-year-old Cayler Ellingson] with his Ford Explorer SUV early Sunday in an alley. His mother said Ellingson called and asked her if she knew Brandt (she did). The boy called again a short time later and said that “‘he’ or ‘they’ were chasing him.” The mother could no longer reach him after that.
Court documents said, “Brandt admitted to striking the pedestrian with his car because he had a political argument with the pedestrian and believed the pedestrian was calling people “to come get him.” He claimed the teen was part of an unspecified Republican “extremist group.”
Brandt was released on bond.
He was a MAGA Republican, a threat to the country like Joe Biden said. So I crushed him with my truck. To make America safe for democracy.
[See You in Hell is a feature by our guest blogger, Satan — PE]
Greetings mortals —
I remember a few months ago many of you talking about Ime Udoka coaching in the NBA finals AND getting to go home to someone named Nia Long, whom many of you seem to find attractive.
I’ll share a little secret with you: No matter how hot you think someone is, there’s someone somewhere who’s bored with her.
And she’s bored with him too but at least she didn’t humiliate him in front of the entire world.
See you in Hell . . .
Iran has yearned for this glorious dance for over 40 years.
Evil is burning — Woman is rising pic.twitter.com/CjGFNESH91— Mariam Memarsadeghi (@memarsadeghi) September 20, 2022
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool. — Robert Brault
Even in [1931] the Macmillan Report could already speak of “the change of outlook of the government of [England] in recent times, its growing preoccupation, irrespective of party, with the management of the life of the people” and add that “Parliament finds itself increasingly engaged in legislation which has for its conscious aim the regulation of the day-to-day affairs of the community and now intervenes in matters formerly thought to be entirely outside its scope.”
I’m buying a soda at a local convenience store, waiting while the guy in front of me buys about 50 dollars worth of scratcher tickets.
After I pay for my soda and head out the door, I see the same guy leaning against the wall and he asks me for spare change.
“For what?” I ask. “More scratchers? You haven’t even scratched the ones you have. You might be a millionaire and not even know it.”
"Cries." Boo hoo. Maybe you disagree but wishing the Queen of England an excruciating death is something one could take exception to without even knowing the race of the person who said it. https://t.co/07rFN8AVfi
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 16, 2022
I don’t think the sentiment would play any better coming from a white person.
The article goes on to say that the professor has faced “violent threats, harassment and abuse.” OK, first of all, let’s all keep our hands to ourselves. No violence. But still, of all the people who claim to have received violent threats or death threats, how many have actually been violently attacked? How many have died?
The only case that comes to my mind is Salman Rushdie, and he didn’t get a death threat from a lone nut, he got a death threat from a global religion. Other than that, I have to call bullshit on the whole “violent threat/death threat” thing. Everybody gets death threats but no one ever dies.
Now as far as harassment and abuse, I’d say that wishing someone an excruciatingly painful death falls under the heading of harassment and abuse. So if you’re going to dish out the harassment and abuse, you’d best be able to take harassment and abuse in return. You asked for it, you got it.
It all depends on who’s slinging the hash, honey.
How many people showed up for Obama's birthday bash? Was a humanitarian crisis declared? https://t.co/xwjVttaxCY
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 16, 2022
We openly welcome all refugees and undocumented immigrants to our country, but we don’t want them in our literal back yard. That’s asinine!
Some people will say anything to fit in with the groups they want to fit in with and/or to signal that they are more caring and compassionate than the average person.
Like the people with Ukrainian flags in their social media profiles. It costs nothing. I support Ukraine! I’m not going to go to Ukraine and pick up a rifle and neither is anyone in my family. I’m not going to host Ukrainian refugees. But by posting this flag I signal that I and people like me are better people than you are.
What percentage of people with Ukrainian flags in their social media profiles are actually doing something tangible to help the people of Ukraine? I estimate 0.0.
They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I’m sure it is
But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyesAnd That’s the Truth: Some Things You Caint Do
[And That’s the Truth is a feature by our guest blogger, Sojourner Truth– PE]
Minnesota Timberwolves ‘disappointed’ in Anthony Edwards, who apologizes for using anti-gay comments in Instagram video — espn.com
I’m gonna tell y’all a little secret. They ain’t really “disappointed” and he ain’t really sorry.
I don’t know what he said on the video. I can probly guess. I been called some names myself. Done called other people some names too. Mebbe you has too. It’s life, people, grow up.
It’s jus like Dave Chappelle says, you can kill a nigger and nobody care but you caint hurt the feelings of a gay person.
And that’s the Truth!
It Wasn’t Much Good for Reading, But . . .
I recently read Omon Ra, a Russian novel that I’d heard good things about. I didn’t really like it at all.
This afternoon, I saw some kind of a large black pincher bug on the living room carpet. My copy of Omon Ra was lying nearby and I picked it up and smashed the bug with it.
So I can’t say that the book was a complete waste of money . . .
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. — A. de Tocqueville
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. — D. Hume
