May 2011
1 post
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the...
– Martin Luther King Jr.
June 2010
1 post
February 2010
9 posts
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns...
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally...
November 2009
12 posts
When someone is seeking … it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing...
– Hesse
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
A man grows most tired while standing still.
October 2009
25 posts
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game,...
A Pale Dot
retropolitics:
Original caption: This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager’s great distance Earth is a...
In his [Jan 22] speech Mr. Obama attributed the economic crisis in part to “our...
September 2009
25 posts
If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then...
– Carl Sagan | Demon Haunted World