With Mom, you had to pay proper attention. Almost superhuman attention. But she understood that Wisdom doesn’t go on sale. There’s no bargain basement priced Wisdom. If you want Wisdom, you must pay Wisdom’s price. And you pay by paying attention.
Tag: how we play chess
Chaos is a Ladder… (and takes up a helluva lot of space.) Entertainment for Armageddon, Littlefinger style
“I did warn you not to trust me”
The journals
The real ones. The backwards ones. I buried them. All over. That’s the secret. From Yellow Gap Trail in Pisgah National Forest to Abiquiu, New Mexico, I buried my notebooks.
A WALL IS A VERY BIG WEAPON
Just saying.
I am still not a spy
I am still not a spy. And I was never here. Shitfuck
I am not a spy
So, as a non-Russia hating, radical, subversive hacker whose formal education was in Chemistry, speaks the wrong languages, thinks Israel commits war crimes and that America does as well, is embedded in the center of the proving grounds of the Military Industrial Complex and whose entire life was spent under the tutelage of a father that essentially made the Surveillance State possible, I just want to say, for the record: I am not a spy.
The South – Grant – and what about the cotton strategy?
What about the South choosing to starve the global cotton market instead of flooding it? Because that was incredibly stupid.
Poker (BOO!)
little tracks everywhere
“Don’t be an idiot…”
“… I bugged the Scotch bottle.” “Don’t be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.”