Stonekettle Station

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. – François de La Rochefoucauld , Maxims What did Trump take? Wh...

  I made a joke.  It was in bad taste.  Deliberately so. But then, nowadays? What's good taste?  See, Ivana Trump died. She fell down th...

  What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, parliaments, political lead...

  The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. ― Abigail van Buren Have faith.  That's what you tell me.  Have faith. Just believe. ...

  There's a man who leads a life of danger To everyone he meets he stays a stranger With every move he makes Another chance he takes Odd...

Since a bunch of you are asking in the wake of the latest outbreak of gun violence, here are the essays: The Seven Stages of Gun Violence Th...

  “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, f...