“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
“Miley Cyrus said her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” is her attempt to reimagine what “beautiful” means: her beloved grandmother’s death, for instance, or the emotion of rage.”
New York Times email teaser June 6, 2025, joining in transvaluing all values
“And then there are the really mega-freaky publications like Weekly World News that are so deranged parakeets will actually hold their shit in until something else is placed in the bottom of their cage.”
Dennis Miller The Rants [violating my normal rule against dirty words but they do have a place].
“NBA legend Jerry West… had become an advocate for mental health, openly speaking about his battles with depression that traced back to childhood with an abusive father in poor, rural West Virginia… West took great umbrage to the HBO series ‘Winning Time,’ which cast him as an out-of-control executive prone to fits of rage. While HBO did not apologize to West, the network said ‘Winning Time’ should be viewed more as a dramatization and less as a documentary.”
NBC obituary of West June 12, 2024 [what a greasy way of admitting you lied maliciously].
“One of two Victoria crosses awarded during the battle of Kohima went to Lance Corporal John Harmon of the Royal West Kents for his brave exploits. Sniper Harman – who spent much of his boyhood on the remote Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel owned by his millionaire father Martin – sprang into action when he spotted a Japanese light machine gun team taking over a nearby trench. Without hesitation he sprinted some 35 yards towards the trench, flung a grenade which killed the two Japanese inside and returned to his line bearing a captured gun. Two days later on 9 April in cold, wet weather he repeated this astonishing performance, only this time there were five men in the trench armed with automatic weapons and he himself used a fixed bayonet rather than a grenade. ‘When all the enemies were dead he walked back to his lines ignoring his comrades’ pleas to run for cover. He was killed by a burst of fire and died, saying “I've got to go. It was worth it – I got the lot.”’ His actions kept the hill in British hands for the time being at least.”
Karen Farrington Victory in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to the Fall of Okinawa [she does not footnote this or any quotation].
“Civil wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”
A.E. Samaan according to a graphic emailed by a friend December 21, 2025 [without further attribution].
“I may have my faults but being wrong isn’t one of them.”
Poster (with picture of a rhinoceros) on wall of a guy working on Dead Sea Scrolls, evidently the project director who went mad and antisemitic, on PBS October 15, 1991 19:50-55
“one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun!”
Tom Joad in John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath