I haven’t posted video in a while. Working. Building. Changing. Into what? A giant space-robot with thousands of metal teeth and a gold chain with a locket with a picture of a squirrel in it.

So, instead of a video I give you these. Some of my favorite quotes of all time. Because words mean something too, dammit. And Hunter was shot out of a cannon last weekend, so I’ll give you his words first…

“And that, I think, was the handle - -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” -HST

“Buy the ticket, take the ride” -HST

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” -HST

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” -The Bayou, Baton Rouge, LA

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” -Albert Einstein

“The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.” -Robert Ingersoll

“We find now that the prosperity of nations has depended, not upon their religion, not upon the goodness or providence of some god, but on soil and climate and commerce, upon the ingenuity, industry, and courage of the people, upon the development of the mind, on the spread of education, on the liberty of thought and action; and that in this mighty panorama of national life, reason has built and superstition has destroyed.” -Robert Ingersoll

“I believe in the religion of reason — the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.” -Robert Ingersoll

“No matter how good she looks,
some other guy is sick and tired
of putting up with her shit.” -Unattributed

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