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politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Saturday, January 01, 2005

THE HAPPY BLOGGER'S CREED, 2005

"The whole age can be divided into those who write and those who do not write. Those who write represent despair, and those who read disapprove of it and believe that they have a superior wisdom - and yet, if they were able to write, they would write the same thing. Basically they are all equally despairing, but when one does not have the opportunity to become important with his despair, then it is hardly worth the trouble to despair and show it. Is this what it is to have conquered despair?"

Soren Kierkegaard