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“Peace through superior firepower,”
His instinct always was to be a night owl, to go to sleep around two or three, then wake up at nine or ten for his first lecture at eleven.
He pulled out some cash, fifty dollars, still twenty dollars short.
So literally spent ALL of his last available cash NOT on food for his family but on cigarettes. Ick.
Melissa (ladybug) liked this
“Gandhi and Stalin.”
the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he’d have been dead in a second, his name forgotten.”
It struck him once more how movies had defined so much of the country’s image of self.
“We got Rags the week my youngest was born.
“Remember Jonestown. Those were Americans, even though they no longer lived in the lower forty-eight. And nearly a thousand of them committed suicide on account of some damn nutcase who told them to drink Kool-Aid laced with poison because God had ordered him to.