Posting paucity

By lex, on April 9th, 2006

Just not feeling it, right now. Might have something to do with the that soul-destroying Engineering Risk Benefit Analysis course I’m taking – closely tied to that loathesome online stats course from last quarter. Might have something to do with the general ickyness of all the news. Over at the front, our newly liberated allies are being perfectly beastly * to each other, and even a supporter of the effort finds himself wondering at times, “who are these people?” In other quarters, muffled beats of the war drum * are heard yet again, calling for us to hurl ourselves once more into the breach, dear friends. And here we are stuck between poor choices on one hand, and none at all on the other. Minas Tirith vs. Mordor II.

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