FEARLESS ELEGANCE

by lex

July 26, 2004 at 07:18 PM

Short, practically meaningless entry – an observation from the evening commute.

I was not quite half way up the 5 today, heading home from work. I hadn’t entirely completed our long-term project to pervert the democratic process, but we’d made a pretty good start on it. Should be done in time for the election, if things don’t go our way.

Traffic was moving pretty well, after getting off Coronado – there was the usual naval air station “TOOT – yabba dabba doo!” backlog there which I navigated at 5-10 mph with what I was forced to admit was gratifying ease and skill.

Oh, maybe not Lance Armstrong winning his sixth Tour de France skill, but still.

Skill.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex