Rincewind the Wizard

At the PA Ren Faire. It's my last chance to see Don Juan and Esmerelda, so I wanted to attend.

Same here, though.

A quote from Terry Pratchett’s “Wee Free Men”. It says, “Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!” The picture show four fee goes on a sheep.

#nokings

Our daughter has been taking high school classes online, along with college classes while she's in high school. We are now at a college she likes, and she's out of the house and interacting with non-relatives for the first time in QUITE a while, so she's rather socially awkward.

I mean, given Trump's history of not honoring contracts, plus his tendency to call anything he doesn't like "woke"...

Trump doing a trade war:

He's a bully. And when confronted, there's nothing backing him up.

😡😡😡😡

Truly Funny 😄💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Fortunately, we only paid for one meal through the college, and will be getting all other meals at local restaurants for considerably less money for better food.

My wife, on our college's rather poor lunch selection that we paid well to eat: "They're not going to convince old people to give you their money with sandwiches!"

Pricing seems a bit off on the big books vs Kickstarter numbers.

I hope everything is OK!

"It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of grey." "Nope." "Pardon?" "There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." From Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Vorbis loved knowing that. A man who knew that, knew everything he needed to know about people.

And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

indicating that he’d always remember his days in No. 3 pit, and was looking forward to coming in and helping out any time they were shorthanded.

And there was the pinned-up tearful letter from Inquisitor First Class Ishmale “Pop” Quoom, thanking all the lads for collecting no fewer than seventy-eight obols for his retirement present and the lovely bunch of flowers for Mrs. Quoom,

And there were the postcards on the wall. It was traditional that, when an inquisitor went on holiday, he’d send back a crudely colored woodcut of the local view with some suitably jolly and risqué message on the back.

They had legends on them like A Present From the Holy Grotto of Ossory, or To The World’s Greatest Daddy. Most of them were chipped, and no two of them were the same.

The mugs, for example. The inquisitors stopped work twice a day for coffee. Their mugs, which each man had brought from home, were grouped around the kettle on the hearth of the central furnace which incidentally heated the irons and knives.

But there were things to suggest to a thinking man that the Creator of mankind had a very oblique sense of fun indeed, and to breed in his heart a rage to storm the gates of heaven.

Full quotation here:

It has to be said…there was little to laugh at in the cellar of the Quisition. Not if you had a normal sense of humor. There were no jolly little signs saying: You Don’t Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!!!

I've been thinking of this quote lately when I hear about people who haven't even been accused of a crime being abducted by plainclothes government agents.

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods