Rise and shine!
Rise and shine!
Evangelical children labor over Biblical chrestomathy.
"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history
have based their job security."
- Bene Gesserit Coda
"Major flaws in government arise from a fear
of making radical internal changes even
though a need is clearly seen.
- Darwi Odrade
"Bureaucracy destroys initiative.
There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation,
especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.
Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.
Who enjoys appearing inept?
- A Guide to Trial and Error in Government, Bene Gesserit Archives
I will forebear to post a chrestomathy of my poems, although it is doubtless that there are items useful to learn among them.
Where else would you be able to find, for example, such pithy observations as that “Roses are red”?
Huh? How can I do math with toothpaste?
Obama read Commie chrestomathy
Said, “Lenin and Marx, boy, am I with thee!”
This wasn’t a whim
It made sense to him
Can’t fathom the right-wing’s antipathy?
The changing chrestomathy in the multiplicity of Obama bios leaves us to believe he may not know who he really is...but we know...an evil POS pretending to be POTUS.
One of the redeeming values of Facebook is to join some of the groups like civil war trust where folks put in links regarding the battles, letters, news stories of the day and other such chrestomathy.