quote [ Guys with power, guys like me, we lie. You got that? ‘Lie’ as in ‘My Lai’ the massacre—as in, ‘My Lai you long time, me so free-markety.’ You distract the dumbshits with free-market B.S. because hey, for whatever reason, that’s what the public likes to hear. ]

quote [ When local police commander Juan José Navarro Rincón and his three colleagues arrived, they saw two men who did not appear to be hurt, removing AK-47 assault rifles and police uniforms from the crashed vehicle to a white Nissan sport utility vehicle (SUV) parked nearby. ]

quote [ Last week I drove to a nearby town. The town is surrounded by tall hills and mountains, and you can have a very pleasant hike down any of the numerous trails there. ]

quote [ "For those of us who have opposed this on biblical grounds, it is bound to reinforce the sense that we are no longer welcome in the mainline." ]

quote [ On the internet Van der Ende found pictures of cars that had an interesting perspective. These images he altered on the computer with Photoshop, after which he used an overheadprojector to place the contours of the sides on large sheets of triplex. By plotting the vanishing point of the image on the wall of his workspace with some rope, he was able to build a perspectively correct framework. ]

quote [ This new law did not legalize drug use, but removed criminal penalties for use, possession, and acquisition for all illicit drugs in quantities up to a 10-day supply. ]

quote [ Currently residing in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, but having lived in Colorado, Oregon, and Wisconsin, I have developed an interest in the interaction between man and environment. ]

quote [ All this business about people committing suicide when they're "severely depressed;" we say, "Holy cow, we must do something to stop them from killing themselves!" That's wrong. Because all these people have, you see, by this time already killed themselves, where it really counts.... When they "commit suicide," they're just being orderly. ]

quote [ You smell the fields, hot dust and drying hay. Those who take pleasure in unrighteousness will be damned, and your ears prick then and you squirm your sweating thighs against the hard pew and you know they're talking now about you and all those unspeakable, exciting things you do, and want to do. ]