How in the World?

How can an individual in a country as great as this go so unloved for so long?

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

-- Niels Bohr, to a young physicist

How could no one do something?

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

What in heaven's name is going on this week?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

- Dwight D Eisenhower, from "The Chance for Peace" address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

I think Chris Rock has something to think about. We have the constitutional right to bear arms, but...

“You don’t need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost $5,000. $5,000 for a bullet. You know why? ‘Cause if a bullet costs $5000 there’d be no more innocent bystanders. That’d be it. Every time someone gets shot, people will be like… ‘Shit, they put $50,000 worth of bullets in his ass.’ People would think before they killed somebody, if a bullet cost $5,000. ”Man, l would blow your fxxxxxg head off, if l could afford it.’ …’You better hope l can’t get no bullets on layaway.”

Chris Rock

Be useful. Be responsible. Be honorable. Stand for something.

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."

-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

"In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

- -- Sir Winston Churchill

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives."

-- Jesse Herman Holmes

Aren't we suppose to be our brother's keeper?