Posted January 24, 2012 at 2:57pm
525. You can’t be friends with everyone.
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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Posted January 15, 2012 at 1:25pm
Si Hay Dios
Podrás llevarte aquellos que me importan,
despojarme de mis ropas, desviarme de la luz.
Podrás llenar de obscuridad mis sueños, podrás porque eres tú.
Podrás romper de nuevo el juramento
desaciendo las cadenas que te ataron una vez
Pero dame tu el valor que tengo miedo
O puedes darme una esperanza
o arrancarme al fin las ganas de seguir por ti
buscando entre mi almohada que es una dama blanca.
Hey, si hay Dios seguramente entiende de emoción.
Podría haberte dicho que me importas
eso y un millón de cosas pude hacerlo y no lo hice no se por qué.
Será porque es más facil escribirlo, o demostrarlo que
montar un numerito de esos de fatalidad
según lo que establece el reglamento del aparentar.
Podría haber llorado un mar de lágrimas saladas
arrojarme a los abismos y partirme en dos el alma
desatar la tempestad y el huracán de mi garganta
y confesar desesperado que no puedo con mi rabia
aunque en mi actitud no soy tan evidente, no puedo sufrir más.
Que el dolor cuando es por dentro, es más fuerte,
no se alivia con decírselo a la gente.
Lloraré si se llorar
como el tímido rocío de un clavel en mi soledad
estaré, todos se irán, ya lo sé
a tu lado en cada golpe
como lo hacen las orillas y la mar
como lo hace el campo y el agua que lloverá.
Podría ser más educado
pero el alma sólo entiende de emoción
y si hay Dios seguro entiende de emoción.
Posted January 14, 2012 at 2:34pm
When the dust settled after the companies that Bain restructured were downsized — or, as happened all too often, went bankrupt — total U.S. employment was probably about the same as it would have been in any case. But the jobs that were lost paid more and had better benefits than the jobs that replaced them. Mr. Romney and those like him didn’t destroy jobs, but they did enrich themselves while helping to destroy the American middle class.
Posted January 6, 2012 at 4:09pm
Recibí una tarjeta de Navidad del Partido de la Liberación Dominicana. “Lo que nunca se hizo”
Posted December 23, 2011 at 9:10pm
Never mind, I’ll find someone like you. I wish nothing but the best for you, too. Don’t forget me, I begged- I remember you said ‘Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.’
— Adele
Posted December 22, 2011 at 10:47pm
Seen in Parkchester, The Bronx. I wonder how many libertarian or republican votes have been cast historically in Bronx County during presidential elections.
Posted December 8, 2011 at 7:31am
We should do our best to decide the fate of the war on the very first day.
Posted December 7, 2011 at 10:53am
Consider that we trust military and homeland security personnel with our lives, yet we don’t give them lavish bonuses. They get promotions and the honor of a job well done if they succeed, and the severe disincentive of shame if they fail. For bankers, it is the opposite: a bonus if they make short-term profits and a bailout if they go bust. The question of talent is a red herring: Having worked with both groups, I can tell you that military and security people are not only more careful about safety, but also have far greater technical skill, than bankers.
Posted November 9, 2011 at 12:27pm
