M.K. Gandhi And Truth
I identify as human @pixfiber “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” · Mohandas K. Gandhi. This item appeared in my twitter feed on January 6. Being an unreconstructed pedant, I went to the Gandhi Wikiquote. “Truth” had too many search results, so I went to “just.” I found a doozy: “I have always held that social justice, even to the least and lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.” Harijan (20 April 1940) p. 97 This is a repost.
Harijan was another word for the untouchable caste in India. “… Gandhi conducted an intensive crusade against untouchability …” “Harijan was also a newspaper that started on 11 February 1933, brought out by Gandhi from Yerwada Jail during the British rule in India. Gandhi popularized the term Harijan across the states of India but he was not the first person to use it.”
Archive.org has much of Harijan available online, including the quote above. The quote is in a tsunami of text. Gandhiji was trained as a lawyer, and could crank out a word count. His positions are well thought out and complicated. This material is more complicated than the motivational Mahatma we are familiar with.
If don’t mind wading through a pile of results, a search for “truth” on the Gandhi Wikiquotes will yield some good thoughts. Bear in mind that these quotes are without context. If you are willing to do the work, and google the source, you might find that the meaning of these thoughts is different from what you might think. The first three quotes in this list are from An Autobiography Or The Story of My Experiments With Truth By: M. K. Gandhi.
“A man of truth must also be a man of care.” Part I, Chapter 5, At the High School
“But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.” Part II, Chapter 18, Colour Bar
“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.” p. 453
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285 (context below)
“A seeker after Truth cannot afford to indulge in generalisation.”
“Generalisation”, Harijan (6 July 1940).
“If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of ‘Love’, it must be a message of ‘Truth’. There must be a conquest — [audience claps] — please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don’t want to receive your claps. Let your hearts clap in unison with what I’m saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work.”
Speech in New Delhi to the Inter-Asian Relations Conference (2 April 1947)
“Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.” Harijan (13 July 1947) p. 232
“[Government] control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.” Delhi Diary (3 November 1947 entry)
“It is no use trying to fight these forces [of materialism] without giving up the idea of conversion, which I assure you is the deadliest poison which ever sapped the fountain of truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi The Collected Works Vol 46, p. 203
Wikiquotes has a lively section devoted to quotes that are Disputed and Misattributed. One Disputed entry is especially festive: “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” “The earliest attribution of this to Gandhi … is in a T-shirt advertisement in Mother Jones, Vol. 8, No. 5 (June 1983), p. 46”
Several much loved Gandhisms have a shaky history. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” “God has no religion.” “We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Young India supplied one of the quotes above. Here is page 1285. “Some Posers: — ‘A well wisher’ sends these lines for my meditation: ‘The Bible can be read in 566 languages. In how many can the Upanishads and the Gita? How many leper asylums and institutions for the depressed and the distressed have the missionaries? How many have you?’ It is usual for me to receive such posers. ‘A well wisher’ deserves an answer, I have great regard for the missionaries for their zeal and self-sacrifice. But I have not hesitated to point out to them that both are often misplaced. What though the Bible were translated in every tongue in the world? Is a patent medicine better than the Upanishads for being advertised in more languages than the Upanishads? An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it. The Bible was a greater power when the early fathers preached it than it is today. ‘A well wisher’ has little conception of the way truth works, if he thinks that the translation of the Bible in more languages than the Upanishads is any test of its superiority. Truth has to be lived if it is to fructify. But if it is any satisfaction to ‘A well wisher’ to have my answer I may gladly tell him that the Upanishads and the Gita have been translated into far fewer languages than the Bible. I have never been curious enough to know in how many languages they are translated.”
“As for the second question, too, I must own that the missionaries have founded many leper asylums and the like. I have founded none. But I stand unmoved. I am not competing with the missionaries or any body else in such matters. I am trying humbly to serve humanity as God leads me. The founding of leper asylums etc. is only one of the ways, and perhaps not the best, of serving humanity. But even such noble service loses much of its nobility when conversion is the motive behind it. That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. But let me not be misunderstood. The missionaries that selflessly work away in such asylums command my respect. I am ashamed to have to confess that Hindus have become so callous as to care little for the waifs and strays of India, let alone the world.”
Chamblee54 has written about M.K. Gandhi. one two three Pictures are from Library of Congress.
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trying to get used to working in bed on the machine. I don’t know if I will ever be comfortable doing this · the act of creation can be metafored into a healing gardne. i try to be careful with the fertilizer you must use in such a gardnea I enjoy making something out of nothing. Google does not always cooperate. When I confirmed that yes, I wante to search for gardne and not garden, they made me click a box saying that i am not a robot. so gurgle told me about a gardne family in new york, which is a name ending in a vowel. New York had the highest population of Gardne families in 1840. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Gardne surname lived. Within · Russell Lee took the featured photograph in March 1942. “Hamburger stand. Imperial County Fair, California · this is the first monday morning post of 2025. Happy January Sixth. The featured picture: “Hamburger stand. Imperial County Fair, California” Photographer: Russell Lee March 1942 · Don’t Don’t get hot and flustered Use a bit of mustard · You’re a hot dog But you better not try to hurt her Frank Furter · American Estrangement Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Buckyboy 1.0 out of 5 stars b o r i n g Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2021 Not a single story was finished- he can’t write that good · The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®) Hardcover – October 1, 2019 by Anthony Doerr (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Editor) · Lao Tan 1.0 out of 5 stars The WORST Short Stories Ever Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2020 Verified Purchase If these are supposed to be the best of 2019, I wouldn’t want to see the worst. No fault of the individual writers…they all have serious issues and cannot put two and two together…HOWEVER, the Editor, Anthony Doerr, carries the blame. For him to screen and choose these writings he needs to find another job. Perhaps this is what Millennials find fascinating…if so, it boggles the mind. · This is a repost from January 9, 2021.. This was three days after the January 6 incident. In thirteen days, Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated. This election was not contested. … · Union soldier from the War Between the States. · yesterday was the anniversary of January 6. The last election was not in doubt, unlike the 2020 national election and the 2018 Georgia election. Would January 6 have happened if Stacey had not challenged the 2018 election? · “imposed war” (jang-e taḥmili) jang-e taḥmili · This is a book report on two story collections. Here is one review: If these are supposed to be the best of 2019, I wouldn’t want to see the worst. No fault of the individual writers…they all have serious issues and cannot put two and two together … · The featured image:The Krystal, Lee Street, SW, 1958. · repost. · Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library · Is there a difference between God and Man? If so, where do you draw the boundary? If you are bored by this type of conversation, then you can always enjoy the pictures. They are from the GSU library. The featured photograph is a 1958 Krystal restaurant, on Lee Street in SW Atlanta. · the Tower Theater, previously the Erlanger Opera House, was located at 583 Peachtree Street. It was originally constructed in 1790. In the 1950’s the theater was turned into a Cinerama, and the name changed to Martin Cinerama. The theater would also be known as Atlanta Theater, and Columbia Theater. The building was razed in 1995. · gsu · I am so inexplicably bored to tears by that tedious conversation. The only way either side can prove their point is to die. The pictures are nice. Further proof that there isn’t any god, only the tortured struggle between man and his own psyche. Thanks for sharing. · N04-135_01 Tower Theatre [Peachtree Street; Billy Graham; Souls in Conflict; All Seats Free], 1954 · God is a concept by which we measure our pain, yeah Pain, yeah · The oldest written joke is a fart joke from 1900 BCE. Found on a Sumerian clay tablet, it reads: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” · the granite for the North Avenue Presbyterian Church was donated by the Venable Brothers. Sam Venable was a key player in the 1915 resurgence of the KKK. Pictures today are from “Bathing Beauty Pageant, 1925, Huntington Beach CA.” · The featured photograph was taken September 1863. “Culpeper, Virginia. William H. French and Staff” · The featured photograph was taken September 1863. “Culpeper, Virginia. William H. French and Staff” · This is a detail taken from a group photograph taken in September 1863. The caption: “Culpeper, Virginia. William H. French and Staff” · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress · selah
A Book About Woodstock
This is a repost from 2011. … I read The Road to Woodstock, by Micheal Lang, ghostwritten by Holly George-Warren. Mr. Lang was one the the producers of the Woodstock music and arts festival in 1969. Mr. Lang was a Brooklyn kid, who got turned onto the counterculture in 1959. When he decided that college was not for him, he did what Jews do … he moved to Miami. Before long, he owned a head shop, and was promoting a rock festival. The Miami Pop Festival, in 1968, featuring Jimi Hendrix and a big rainstorm, was sort of a success.
Micheal Lang was back in New York soon. Mr. Lang met Artie Kornfield, who was in the recording business. They started to talk about ventures, and had an idea for a recording studio in Upstate New York. They met some guys with capital, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman. The four of them became Woodstock Ventures. A music festival in the country got started.
Fast forward to 2010. I am in a waiting room at the Department of Labor. A book is a handy companion in a waiting room. I brought a notepad along. … I am reading a memoir about the Woodstock festival, and it is a gold mine of trivia. Did anyone know that Joan Baez was pregnant? Jim Morrison would not appear because he was afraid of an on stage assassination. The promoters kept Pete Tomnsend up until 8am to convince him to play.
I got my business done at the DOL, and the festival on Yasgur’s farm went off. There was a lot of chaos and ignorance, but good will saw the thing through. The first act to perform was Richie Havens. He was playing an acoustic set while the electric PA was set up, and was not allowed to leave the stage. Finally he ran out of material, and just started to say the word Freedom and jam. This is what appeared in the movie. … I saw Richie Havens in 1974, at a nightclub in Atlanta called Richards. Havens played a Guild guitar, which he strummed, hard, across the front of the instrument. He would wear holes in the front of his guitar, which apparently did not last for more than a show or two. The crowd … this was the second show of the evening, starting at 2am … kept yelling for Freedom.
In Woodstock, the town of Walkill kicked out the festival, and, with a few weeks to go, they met Max Yasgur. Max rented the farm to 50k. Bethel approved the festival July 21, one day after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The festival was August 15-17. … Back to the dairy farm. The story is familiar by now…it was a free concert, they ran out of food, and tie dye was perfected. Abbie Hoffman jumped on the stage during the Who, and Pete Townsend hit him upside the head with a guitar. Stephen Stills did not need a laxative. After Jimi Hendrix played the final set, the crowds went home, and the workers wanted to get paid. A series of meetings took place to settle the business end of the festival. Lang and Kornfield were bought out, and Roberts and Rosenman owned the franchise.
The Woodstock festival was a milestone of sorts. Richard Nixon was new to the Presidency, and the war in Vietnam was going strong. The moratorium in the fall of 1969 was the high water mark of the anti war movement. Soon, the government started to withdraw troops, and look for “peace with honor.” Promoters found festival sites with sturdy gates. And so on and so forth. The sixties were too beautiful to live, and too profitable to die.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The featured photograph was taken September 1863.
“Culpeper, Virginia. William H. French and Staff”.
Yasser
This is a repost from 2010. There are thousands of stories like this in West Asia. … There is a story in a New York Times “blog” about a man, Yasser, who died in a bombing, in Baghdad, the other day. With all the talk about “the surge winning the war”, this is a sad story. It would be a sad story without the happy talk about victory.
Yasser_____ ( use of his last name would endanger his family) worked for a London news service. His Shiite family moved out of a mixed neighborhood during the civil war, only to move back after things calmed down a bit. The blog story tells a few things about him…he was brave, friendly, and useless in the kitchen… This was another human being. And now he is a statistic.
There is a sense in America that the wars are a game. The lower price of gas, and spreading democracy to Babylon, make it all worthwhile. Arabs and Persians are seen as somehow less than human, as towelheads and terrorists. These people are human, and have paid a fierce price for our experiment.
HT to Iraqimojo for the story. … In a digital miracle, the story from Iraqi Mojo is available in 2025. There is an ironic comment: said… “Thank you Mojo for linking to Stephen Farrell’s fine post about his friend and fellow journalist, Yasser. It was very moving and tells us of the price paid by those who risk their lives to bring us the news. The list of journalists murdered by Al Qaida and their fellow terrorists from Daniel Pearl beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002 to Yasser is a tragically long one and reminds us of why Al Qaida and its allies must be defeated.” David All 1/27/10, 4:35 PM
A lot has happened in the last fifteen years. Recently, the government in Syria was overthrown. As with all such events, it is tough to know exactly what happened. It is highly likely that the forces currently in control of Syria had American support. It is also all but certain that these forces have strong ties to Al Qaida. There is a revolving door between enemy and ally, and vice versa.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The featured photograph was taken by Jack Delano in September 1941. “Merrymakers at the World’s Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont”
The Tortured Struggle
X does not like linking to a post. I write a description, and leave a link in the comments. Yesterday, it looked like this: “Is there a difference between God and Man? If so, where do you draw the boundary? If you are bored by this type of conversation, then you can always enjoy the pictures. They are from the GSU library. The featured photograph is a 1958 Krystal restaurant, on Lee Street in SW Atlanta.”
Facebook had a response: “I am so inexplicably bored to tears by that tedious conversation. The only way either side can prove their point is to die. The pictures are nice. Further proof that there isn’t any god, only the tortured struggle between man and his own psyche. Thanks for sharing.”
My smartass reaction was that “the tortured struggle between man and his own psyche” was a good description of God. Or, to quote someone more popular than Jesus, “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” But I didn’t want to start trouble, so I clicked “Like,” and went on my way.
One person who talked about that tortured struggle was Billy Graham. One of the photographs yesterday was the marquee at the Tower Theater, for a 1954 Billy Graham Crusade. Sixteen years later, a Shea Stadium crusade featured Anita Bryant.
The Tower theater is now a parking lot. “The Tower Theater, previously the Erlanger Opera House, was located at 583 Peachtree Street. It was originally constructed in 1790. In the 1950’s the theater was turned into a Cinerama, and the name changed to Martin Cinerama. The theater would also be known as Atlanta Theater, and Columbia Theater. The building was razed in 1995.”
The Erlanger Opera House was probably not built in 1790. I decided to do some checking up, and began by seeing when the North Avenue Presbyterian Church was built next door. This is where the investigation took a curious turn. “The church was constructed from Stone Mountain granite donated by charter members whose family owned the mountain and were in the granite quarry business. It was occupied for the first time for the Thanksgiving service in 1900.”
“The building program was helped immeasurably by the generosity of the Merssrs. William H. and Samuel H. Venable, who donated the granite out of which the building was constructed.” · “William Hoyt Venable (1852-1905) and Samuel Hoyt Venable (1856-1939) were involved with the Stone Mountain quarrying industry. The Venable brothers were the sole owners of Stone Mountain and much surrounding land which they purchased in 1887 at a claimed cost of $350,000.”
“James Venable (1901-1993) was the Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Klan from 1963 to 1987, “which he organized as one of several rival Klan factions nationally.” (NY Times) Venable had but continued the family tradition. As a 13 year old, he attended the 1915 Klan resurgence and rally on top of Stone Mountain. He was with his uncle, Sam Venable, who, as one of the owners of Stone Mountain, also became the secretary of the Klan.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These details are from picture #06665, “Bathing Beauty Pageant, 1925, Huntington Beach CA.”
Thou Art That
It started out as a joke comment. Thank God for secular humanism. · You’re welcome. I got to thinking, and wondered what the punch line was. Is there a difference between God and man?
Zen and the art of motorcycle repair says that the division of God and man, subject and object, is the dirty work of Aristotle. I am not philosophically grounded enough to know, but suspect that unity is better than division. Is the earth a unified whole, “thou art that”?
Now, the truth just might be that God is separate from man. While unity may sound appealing, it might not be the way things operate. Just because a belief makes you happy does not mean that it is true. Let no man bring together what God has rent asunder.
If there is a division between God and man, then where does the boundary lie? Pictures are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The featured image:The Krystal, Lee Street, SW, 1958. This is a repost. Is it art?
Short Stories
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (SIGH-eed say-RAH-fiz-ah-dee) is one of the authors featured at The Writer’s Voice, a podcast from The New Yorker. When I went to the library website for my reading fix, I put his name in the search engine. American Estrangement, a collection of his short stories came up. Another result was The Best American Short Stories 2019 – (The Best American Series ®), featuring a story by SS. With short stories you can go from one book to another, skipping over the ones that don’t catch your fancy. It gave me some waiting room distraction for a while. … Today’s appreciation is a drabble-drone. Six paragraphs, 100 words each, with no control over the process once the word counter starts.
A Beginner’s Guide to Estrangement Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Danush Jamshid, aka Danny McDade, goes to Tehran to see his bio-dad for the first time in fifteen years. Many Tehran buildings have large, optimistic murals, commemorating “The imposed war” (jang-e taḥmili) aka The Iran-Iraq war. This conflict cost over a million lives, and is widely seen as an effort by the West to destroy the Islamic Republic. The fighting was encouraged by the West, with the United States sending weapons to both sides. The idea was to have Iran and Iraq fight each other, rather than fight Israel. The United States has never forgiven Iran for deposing the Shah.
A, S, D, F Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
He has gone from the cafe in a Denver art museum to typing letters in an Aspen gallery. The key word is typing. The owner is an old fogey. Letters must be produced with analog typing, with absolutely no mistakes. The computer sits abandoned, waiting for the next visit from a technician. It is like the lady from Gainesville Blueprint. She insisted that every job be perfect, with no background, and all the lines clearly showing. A job that Shacoh could knock out in a few minutes would take hours. The bosslady was the only one who knew the difference.
Audition Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
A nineteen year old is working for his dad at a construction site. One day, Duncan Dioguardi needs a ride home. 19yo takes him home, and stays to smoke crack. 19yo has dreams of being an actor, unlike Duncan, who lives with his mom in a sketchy neighborhood. 19yo goes back to Duncan’s place one more time. Later, 19yo gets a part in a play few people will see. Seinfeld was on the TV while 19yo and Duncan passed the aluminum foil crack pipe, with his comedies about nothing really. Is this a case of art imitating life without trying?
Bronze Jeffrey Eugenides
“Bronze” is the story of Eugene, a baby gay who takes the train to New York for a decadent 1978 weekend. Stigwood takes Eugene to lots of trashy clubs, and funnels vodka and drugs into his painted lips. Eugene is from a small town, and thinks homoze are supposed to dress like a color blind Liberace. Stigwood has another bf, who has an ex in Texas, dying of some mysterious disease. Finally, the boytoy weekend is over. Eugene takes the train back to college, and talks to the ballerina he asked out. “You are strange, not in a good way.”
Omakase Weike Wang
A man, and his Chinese gf, go to dinner at an uber-expensive sushi restaurant in Harlem. They are both microaggressing at times, which seems to be part of the routine at this type of venue. The chef mentions that he was fired at his last job, and the clueless man insists on finding out why. The chef mentions a dispute with his previous boss, and says that the previous boss was Chinese. This irritates the Chinese gf, who has drank enough saké to let it show. There is an omakase place in West Midtown, charging $100 plus, like I’ll go.
The Great Interruption: A Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased to Be Told (1935-1978) Wendell Berry
The rip-roaring tale of a small town boy who likes to go for walks. He finds a place on a dirt road, hidden by trees from the main road. One day a vehicle pulled into this spot. Inside the vehicle was a prominent citizen, and a young lady. They were both married to other people. The small town boy climbed a tree, overlooking the vehicle. He then climbed out on a branch, to get a better view. The branch broke, depositing the small town boy on the back of the prominent citizen. The story was supposed to be a secret.
Where It Starts
This is a repost from January 9, 2021. This was three days after the January 6 incident. In thirteen days, Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated. This election was not contested. … I had never heard of Stacey Abrams. She was a little known legislator, running for Governor. Then there was a controversy about the DSA. They promoted the disruption of a campaign event. A band of ladies started to shout down Stacey Evans, the other person in the Democratic primary.
Miss Abrams supported shouting down her opponent. “I do not believe that you silence those who feel they are voiceless, because the minute we do that we are no better than those who tell people they can’t kneel in protest.” The DSA is a lot of things, but it is not voiceless. They make a lot of noise.
As we all know, Miss Abrams nearly got elected Governor. She ran on a curious platform. Her main issue was claiming that the Republicans engaged in something called “voter suppression.” Miss Abrams famously not-conceded the election. It became an article of faith in Georgia that the election was stolen from her.
A few days after the election, there was a protest rally inside the State Capitol. Such events are forbidden, by law, inside the Capitol. During this event, a state legislator, Nikema Williams, got herself arrested. Stacey Abrams supports the illegal protest rally. In 2020, Nikema Williams was elected to Congress.
We all know what happened Wednesday. Donald Trump lost the election. He claimed the election was stolen from him. He spoke to a rally of angry supporters. The mob proceeded to invade the U.S. Capitol. Much damage was done, both to the Capitol, and what remains of Mr. Trump’s reputation.
There is no obvious connection between the rhetoric of Stacey Abrams, and Donald Trump. Mr. Trump probably would not have been done anything different, if Stacey Abrams had not led the way. This are both examples of what happens when an irresponsible politicians encourage bad behavior from the mob. When you lose an election, you should concede defeat, and move on. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The men are Union soldiers from the War Between the States.
Insane Sell-Outs
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here are my weekly notes, for the last week we were blessed with Jimmy Carter. The picture was taken in Plains GA, July 30, 1966. This was during Jimmy’s first run for Governor. · FE: Is there any truth to the rumor that Amy Carter was one of your fans down there [in Georgia]? KING: Yeah, She was a huge fan. We met her. PAUL: Yeah. Jimmy as well. Jimmy and Rosalyn came to pick her up. It was a pretty touching experience. I didn’t touch him, though. Gibby touched his penis to Amy Carter’s suitcase which was, five minutes after that, touched by Jimmy Carter, so… FE: Was she staying with the band? PAUL: No. She was staying with this girl who invited us to her parents’ house while her parents were out of town. Her brother was the boyfriend of Amy Carter at the time. She was staying at the house and they came to pick her up one time after a show. At four o’clock in the morning, believe it or not, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter and secret service men pull into this driveway to pick up Amy. We had just gotten through smoking out on hash and we were all drinking beer. We were like trying to wave away this cloud of smoke and look at Jimmy who’s looking back at us lookin’ at him. As soon as Amy turned her back, Gibby jumped up and rubbed his dick all over her purse and suitcase. KING: The President of the United States’ finger was touching Gibby’s pubic hairs. Amy was pretty cool. She walked into the room wearing a Psychedelic Furs t-shirt. [longest sustained general laughter of the night] PAUL: We always wanted to do an interview with Amy Carter. KING: Supposedly she really wanted to see the Psychedelic Furs when they played this free outdoor show in Rockin’ Athens or somewhere, but it was too big of a security risk. so she saw the soundcheck and took off. FE: So does she wander around now in a Buttholes shirt? KING: I don’t think she has one. But supposedly she was kind of upset that she didn’t get introduced to us ’cause she knew who we were and had one of our records. She’s really into the Meatmen. FE: Tesco will dream of a video. KING: But her freinds shoved her out of the house as we totally filled the place with hash smoke. The secret service was all arond and we put her in the garage to wait ’til her parents showed up. FE: Where were you based in Georgia? GIBBY: Winterville. It’s right near Athens. · RAMONES MUSEUM BERLIN RAMONES MUSEUM BERLIN shares a story about the Ramones. There was a show at the Agora Ballroom April 8, 1983. “The daughter of former US President Jimmy Carter, Amy Carter, was a big Ramones fan, but at 15 years old too young to attend the show later that evening. The band invited her for an extra long soundcheck … Soon after, Amy was escorted out the venue by her security” The show was all ages. I might know, since I was there. The Agora had a balcony, where the approved alcohol consumers could get their legal drugs fix. · This is a repost from 2015. · Russell Lee took the photograph in October 1940. “Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair” · He says surveillance video does show Yore shopping at the Pueblo store at 4080 West Northern Avenue on Friday, and going through a checkout line manned by a young cashier, but the truth stops there. · Walmart Supercenter #1001, 4080 W Northern Ave, Pueblo, CO 81005, is still open. · Walmart · Russell Lee took the featured photograph in October 1940. “Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town NM, Fair.” · “Paige Yore” made a video which inspired many people. Others did some fact checking, and debunked the story. Russell Lee took the photograph in October 1940. “Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town NM, Fair.” · Cringe, Game Changer, Era, Dropped, IYKYK (If You Know, You Know), Sorry Not Sorry, Skibidi, 100%, Utilize, Period · It wouldn’t be a new year without the Banished Words List from LSSU. The “winners” for this year: “Cringe, Game Changer, Era, Dropped, IYKYK (If You Know, You Know), Sorry Not Sorry, Skibidi, 100%, Utilize, Period.” · This is a repost from 2024, about an incident in 2018.. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The featured photograph was taken by Russell Lee in June 1941. “A little boy gets a shot (tick fever serum) at the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Caldwell ID” · $36.2t · seven years ago, I pointed out that a screen shot did not have a time and date, and might have been faked. I was called a white supremacist, and told to Examine. Your. Whiteness. The picture: “A little boy gets a shot (tick fever serum) at the clinic at the FSA farm labor camp. Caldwell ID” · Matthew 15:11 not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. · Awful Library Books retired in 2023. · “Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “No” to Drugs” is today’s galloping tale. A filly learns about peer pressure, drinking and smoking drugs. Pictures today are from the GSU library. · William Morris Smith took the photograph in November 1865. “Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.” · Daphne Gray-Grant @pubcoach Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. ~Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel #quotes · The late Ivana Trump is quoted as saying “Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.” The closest verification I have found is the comment “Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel.” · Democrats have spent the last nine years promoting hatred of Donald J. Trump by calling him RACIST. His inauguration will be on MLK Day. · pictures for this January 6 collection are from The Library of Congress · Russell Lee took the featured photograph in March 1942. “Hamburger stand. Imperial County Fair, California” · selah
Sixty Dumb Quotes
This repost was originally published January 08, 2012. At that time, no one could have forseen the prophecy of quote number four. The idea that Donald Trump’s (seldom mentioned) first wife could have said “Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything” was marginally noteworthy in 2012. There is a saying, life is bad fiction. Donald J.Trump is an example.
· Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life. – Brooke Shields
· If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. – Dan Quayle
· So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? — Christina Aguilera
· Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. – Ivana Trump
· I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism. – Milos Forman .
· When I’m a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they’ll believe me because they weren’t listening to me. – Kylie Bax, Model/Actress.
· The internet is a great way to get on the net. – Bob Dole
· You guys, line up alphabetically by height. – Bill Peterson, football coach
· I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada. – Britney Spears
· I think war is a dangerous place. – George W. Bush
· I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. – Greg Norman, Golfer
· It’s nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he’ll bring a drill or something. – Brooke Shields
· Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself. – Gyrator, Chicago Rotary Club journal
· These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.
Chuck Person, NBA Basketball player
· I’m so smart now. Everyone’s always like ‘take your top off’. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I’m not stupid. – Paris Hilton
· I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman
Arnold Schwarzenegger
· Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry.
· I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey
· Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future. – Yogi Berra
· My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.
Chuck Nevitt, basketball player
· The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century. – Dan Quayle
· And now the sequence of events in no particular order. – Dan Rather
· Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. – George W Bush
· The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. – Dizzy Dean
· I was in a no-win situation, so I’m glad that I won rather than lost. – Frank Bruno, Boxer
· I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them. – George Bush
· I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. – George Rogers, NFL RB
· I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador
· The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. – Joe Theisman
· Half this game is ninety percent mental. – Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
· Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it.
Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant.
· If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn’t own anything. My wife’s a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven’t sold them. – Ted Turner
· They misunderestimated me. – George W Bush
· I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to. – Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
· Facts are stupid things. – Ronald Reagan
· What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.
How true that is. – Dan Quayle
· That’s just the tip of the ice cube. – Neil Hamilton, BBC2
· A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man. – Samuel Goldwyn
· I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid. – Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer
· It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment,
· It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. – Dan Quayle
· I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. –
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
· The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change.
After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush. – Sylvestor Stallone
· Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
· We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur. – Dan Quayle
· Will the highways on the internet become more few? – George W Bush
· Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.
Keppel Enderbery, Former Australian cabinet minister
· There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964. – Roger Daltrey
· We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees. – Jason Kidd
· I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish.
· And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa. – Britney Spears
· Pitching is 80% of the game.
· The other half is hitting and fielding. – Mickey Rivers, baseball player
· I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. – Dan Quayle
· Put the ‘off’ button on. – George W. Bush
· So Carol, you’re a housewife and mother. And have you got any children? -Michael Barrymore
· Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz, US writer
· We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? – Lee Iacocca
· For NASA, space is still a high priority. – Dan Quayle
· He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer
· If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight. – George Gobel
· If only faces could talk… – Pat Summerall
· Every minute was more exciting than the next. – Linda Evans, actress
· I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic?
I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me. — Jessica Simpson
DISCLAIMER: The accuracy, legitimacy, and context, of these quotes is not known. They have not been verified. Quotes were originally published by 2Spare , a digital facility that advertises “Endless entertainment to spare”. I do not know where 2Spare got this content. 2Spare is for sale. Even though most of the quotes originated in English, the possibility of translation errors exists. The original title was “60 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes”. The use of the superlative is questionable, as is the celebrity status of Dan Quayle. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. William Morris Smith took the photograph in November 1865. “Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.”
LATAWNYA, the Naughty Horse
Today’s feature is a repost from 2014. … Awful library books is one of the actors in this drama. It is a good waste of your time. On top of the shelf today is Lee the Rabbit with Epilepsy. Other uplifting volumes on the front page include Isn’t One Wife Enough?: the Story of Mormon Polygamy and When Cavemen Go Bowling. Awful Library Books retired in 2023.
The book that Awful Library Books chose to “weed” was Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “No” to Drugs. The links in the original post no longer work, so google was enlisted to find a replacement. Believe it or not, this galloping tale has a wikipedia page.
The original book was targeted at African American youth. The author has daughters named Latawnya and Chrystal. The author has sued amazon, wikipedia, and urban dictionary.
A possibly illegal reproduction is found using the link. One of the comments tells a cautionary tale: “It seems that many of these comments are viciously lampooning the work of a genius. I, however, see the visionary work of Mrs. Gibson. This insightful masterpiece presents the very real dangers of horse peer pressure. Just last week my daughter, Amber, was walking to school on a normal, idyllic day in suburbia. Then out of nowhere a Clydesdale galloped brazenly over to my precious princess and offered her a 40 oz bottle of Olde English 800 and a marijuana cigarette.”
Clydesdales have long been used to promote the products of the Anheuser-Busch company. (When you click on that link, a page pops up: WE NEED TO CHECK YOUR ID YOU MUST BE OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE TO ENTER THIS SITE) When I was younger, I worked on the mall maintenance crew at Northlake Mall. One day, the Budweiser Clydesdales made a visit. I was given a shovel and bucket, and told to walk behind the horses.
Courtesy of Awfullibrarybooks, we can see today “LATAWNYA, the Naughty Horse, Learns to say “No” to Drugs“. This uplifting story is about the afternoon when Latawnya goes out to play with her sisters Daisy and LaToya. Suddenly they meet four strange horses, Connie, Chrystal, Jackie, and Angie. They like to drink and smoke drugs.
The author of this tale was born in Mississippi, and lives in California. She says “Thank you, G-d”.
One of the reasons for the drug problem is drug education. Many of these programs, while well intentioned, make the problem worse.
In 1986, there was an oversupply of cocaine coming into America, and new ways of using the product were needed. Someone had the idea of making crack. The media did its part, by running scare stories about the new drug sensation. “One puff makes your head feel like it is exploding”. The stories had the combined effect of scaring parents, and making crack cocaine irresistible to certain people. Crack became a part of the life.
The first time I heard about oxycontin was a drug education flyer at work. It promised an overwhelming rush to the user who injected the substance. I imagined the reaction of some of the druggies he had known to this promise…where can I get some?
I am in the detoxed, old fogey stage of his life. Millions of others are not. When they read stories about horses who drink and smoke drugs, they learn to believe the opposite of what the drug educators tell them. Many will not live to be detoxed old fogeys. The pictures for this tale of drug-free stallions are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
Indifferent Truth-Seeker Act
This is a repost from 2024, about an incident in 2018. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The featured photograph was taken by Russell Lee in June 1941. “A little boy gets a shot (tick fever serum) at the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Caldwell ID” … A bit of dialog turned up in a 2018 facebook thread. “Arnold” “Luther I am genuinely curious about how it is you support white supremacist world views consistently, yet have always hung out in alternative spaces. Have you written about this?” Luther “Questioning the validity of a facebook post is not supporting a white supremacist world view.” “Stephen” “It absolutely is when you’ll accept no standard of evidence presented in support of the claim. No one here is fooled by your indifferent truth-seeker act.” This is not your daddy’s white supremacy.
On January 19, 2018, Wussy published Is the Owner of Popular Atlanta Drag Bar a Racist? A disgruntled employee shared a 2015 facebook screen shot. Palmer Marsh, the owner of Burkhart’s Pub, said “Obviously Vladimir Putin thinks that Barack Obama is a stupid (magic word). He just might be right.” The Atlanta queer community went into a pearl clutching frenzy.
I noticed that the screen shot did not have a date or time. I mentioned this detail, and was richly rewarded for my efforts. This is the “indifferent truth-seeker act” that supports “white supremacist world views.” Examine. Your. Whiteness. was one of the kinder suggestions.
This was seven years ago, and seems quaint today. In the last seven years, we have shut down the country over a virus, and had a racial reckoning. After electing a senile criminal to be President, we supported a gruesome war in Ukraine, facilitated a genocide in Gaza, and elected another senile criminal to be President. The national debt has gone from $20t to $36t. It is tough to believe we were once so concerned about a drunken old man saying a six letter word on facebook.
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