Mine's a melancholy world
When you can't tell the sand from the pearls
You can't imagine what my motives are
Or where I'm going
But the world
Unclear to you
Keeps on turning
And the sun still rises each day
If you just separate
The wheat from the chaff
Change my melancholy world
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(from Nobody Left To Lie To; The Values of The Worst Family by Christopher Hitchens)
". . . Indeed, in what had begun as a rather stilted and fixed campaign, the only outlet for insurgent feeling was that offered in a Republican primary by the eccentric Senator from Arizona, John McCain achieved at least an initial burst of speed by his proclaimed dislike of the system, by his professed distaste for campaign-finance racketeering and by his (apparently) unscripted and unspun style. It was puerile anti-politics but it worked for a space, and drew for its effect on many voters who had registered as Democrats or independents. Nowhere within the echoing emptiness of the Democratic fold was there any hint of a live dialogue. And McCain, of course, had voted to impeach and to convict Clinton, and had gravely upset Governor Bush of Texas, in the course of the South Carolina Primary, by comparing him to incumbent President. ("You don't," said Bush in a tone of outrage, "you just don't say that of a man."). . . "
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. . . is Essential . . . in life. Why not in government?
(https://www.amacad.org/content/publications/pubContent.aspx?d=1050)
An excerpt from a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Representative John Boehner, who was then about to become Speaker of the House following the Republican success in the 2010 congressional elections:
JOHNBOEHNER: It means working together.
LESLEYSTAHL: It also means compromising.
[ . . . ]
BOEHNER: I made clear I am not going to compromise on my principles, nor am I going to compromise . . . the will of the American people.
STAHL: And you’re saying, “I want common ground, but I’m not going to compromise.” I don’t understand that. I really don’t.
BOEHNER: When you say the word “compromise”. . . a lot of Americans look up and go, “Uh-oh, they’re going to sell me out.”
[ . . . ]
STAHL: . . . you did compromise [to get all the Bush tax cuts made permanent]?
BOEHNER: . . . we found common ground. STAHL: Why won’t you say–you’re afraid of the word.
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(from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201204/31-quotes-gossip)
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. —Primo Levi
All literature is gossip. —Truman Capote
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie. —Paul Scott
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. —Richard Steele
Gossip is more popular than literature. —Hugh Leonard
Gossip is nature's telephone. —Sholom Aleichem
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. —Walter Winchell
Gossip is the Devil's radio. —George Harrison
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. —Erica Jong
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. —Marie Curie
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. —Andy Warhol
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. —Oscar Wilde
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. —Paulo Coelho
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(from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-in-calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips-is-frighteningly-accurate_us_5783bbc1e4b01edea78eb57a)
". . . You may have been following this year’s tumultuous election a bit on autopilot. And one could hardly blame you. But it’s hard to ignore Donald Trump, even though you/I/we desperately want to. . . He reminds you of someone. You can’t quite put your finger on it. The loud, cocky attitude delivered with all the subtlety of a 6-year-old. Oh wow, Donald Trump is Calvin from “Calvin and Hobbes.”. . . "
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. . . on down to Elk Run Vineyards this Friday. . .
. . . in your Limousine . . .
She comes out of the night she wrote every book you've read
Fingering her pearl(s) every bead a lover dead
She wears that feathered hat ends up burning on the bed
Her freedom ring's not cheap the beast the till both must be fed
We twins sit on this leather seat this woman this man
One lives the level of her heart the other's gland's in hand
She serves that wicked brew opens minds opens eyes
Holds up the looking glass cracks to cut the shame that binds
What is is what is not is too
This emptiness inside includes
The mystery awaiting moving you
To be released and not removed
And she runs me down in my limousine
And she picks me up in my limousine
And we drive it home give our breath away
Though I'm left alone no way am I the same
The hand extends the fingers eyed they fondle urging every word
You only have what you give up fluxing in the flow
Holding on to what you want will only keep it out of reach
And lock you up inside yourself and block epiphany
Read the beat the rhythm takes and gives
The bodies dance in primal play
Forever steps alive into today
Here each word points but does not say
And she runs me down in my limousine
And she picks me up in my limousine
And we drive it home give our breath away
Though I'm left alone no way am I the same
Elk Run Vineyards
15113 Liberty Road,
Mount Airy, MD, 21771
http://www.elkrun.com
E-Mail Elk_runattomsn.Com
Phone 410-775-2513
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