Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife. "
I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
Fairy tales only happen in movies. " -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.
The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.