Ryan Gill

Hopefully the cops will be decent enough to let me visit the Cheesecake Factory before they give me the chair. Not a democracy. Never was.

YouTube video by RBArchives Gong Show: Gene Gene the Dancing Machine

We peaked culturally, for sure.

“Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there's absolutely no point.” Helen Mirren

"People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who had the Pope on their People Trumpsters Hate Bing-O Card???

“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts.” — Mevlana

Great American Psycho On the Film and Novel, 25 Years Later

I used to believe American Literature would be the great historical legacy of our country. Now I am 110% sure it'll be horror films. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/great-amer...

How am I just now hearing, for the first ever, Jackson Browne's "LAWYERS IN LOVE?" Was I even alive til now?

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” Albert Camus

Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide The Joyful Sabotage Guide to Supporting Real Music and Reigniting Pleasure in the Age of Tech Oligarchy

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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frédéric Bastiat

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain

I can't even begin an elementary explanation of what inertia is but all three definitions sure do seem to describe me.

Too many Devil's Advocates are actually Devil's Idiots, but have you tried telling them that?

"I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets, because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed -- and I am blessed." Val Kilmer

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." Edgar Allan Poe

YouTube video by Real Stories The Brain Washing of My Dad (Family Non-Ficton Film) | Real Stories

I saw this several years ago then forgot about it. If you have the chance, check it out. It's just under an hour and a half. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS52...

Rising tides lifts all boats but not everybody has a boat.

Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky: "Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy" Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the autho...

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