Butterflies on The Moon

From Wayne Sumstine

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger that is needed to produce it. This rule is known as the BULLSHIT ASYMMETRY PRINCIPLE.

— From Haggard Hawks

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Here is the FOX News decoder ring: When FOX News says “Al Sharpton,” they mean “People of Color wanting equal rights.” When they call COVID the “Chinese virus” they mean “foreigners are bringing disease to America.” When they say “George Soros” they mean “Jews working for social justice.” When they say “Hillary Clinton” or “Alexandria Ocasio Cortez,” they mean “women who will not submit to the patriarchy.” When they say “socialist,” they mean “anyone who stands for worker’s rights or economic justice.” And, make no mistake, when they say “American” they mean “conservative, white, patriarchal, fundamentalist, practitioners of the most predatory forms of capitalism.”

— Jim Rigby

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Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for a Four Year Old

1. Sometimes people feel sad.

2. Sometimes the thing that makes people sad is not getting something they want or getting something they don’t want.

3. There is a way not to be so sad about not getting what you want or getting something you don’t want.