amike

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• Location Little Rhody
• Party Democratic
• Politics I think I'm left. Either that or left out.

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• Favorite Books The one I'm currently reading, plus anything by Dr. Seuss. The Ring Cycle (Tolkein's not Wagner's). Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Reis' How the Other Half Lives.
• Favorite Quotes Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton http://tinyurl.com/yzuklm I don't care what you believe in, so long as you don't believe in it too strongly. A belief is a weapon in the armoury of your heart, and its razor edge will murder the innocent. The ice, the fire of your passion will seduce mundane men and women. Your clarity will excite respect. And the first demagogue who comes along with a key to your heart's armoury will wrest the weapon from your moral grasp. The first cause which wears the colours of your belief will enlist you as a soldier in ravaging crusades. Peace friend. Keep your passion to doubt with. Our civilization is a simple matter of live and let live, of giving dreams a go, but stepping back with a wry smile when we get it wrong. Let the fundamentalists perish in their own pillars of fire. Spare a dollar for the living, and have a nice day. Thor May http://thormay.net/unwiseideas/unwisendx.html

Bio

Jack of all trades, master of some: Ph. D. American Studies, 38th (make that 39th) year in the classroom Jolly fun, what what?