Tribute

With a tip of the hat to Virgil Xenophon, who sent me this link * to a recent tribute to our Beloved Lex.

…I happened upon the blog about four years ago while looking for something to occupy my time while working in SandyTown. I’m not sure what the original search parameters were that landed me on his page, and truthfully, I’m not sure why I stayed. The acronyms and military jargon was thick, and it seemed like everyone knew everyone else. I lurked for about four months before I worked up the courage to comment on something Lex had posted, and I’m glad I did. My perspective was not well-received in some quarters, and Lex took the time to send me a private message encouraging me to post more. He explained some of the finer points of posting on his site, and I took his advice and waded in on more than one occasion. Several other posters were supportive, and I stopped feeling like I was tearing a hole in the universe if I took an alternate tack to what appeared to be the prevailing opinion….

Go, read the whole thing. It’s not long and it’s truly beautiful. The writer is DaisyMae – someone who used to comment on The Mothership for a few years. The blog is Aston Martins and Cat Spit.

Go – read what DaisyMae has to say about Lex. It will likely sound very familiar to you – it’s what we all felt about him.

** 07-10-18 Alas. DaisyMae’s blog seems to have disappeared – Ed.

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