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Don’t walk ahead of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me, and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
- Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York

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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
- Jonathan Swift

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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put make up on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy

Lone Star State of Mind

Well, I've gone and done it. I've bought a return ticket to Houston and pleaded with my new bosses to let me off from the absofuckinlutely pointless last Friday before Christmas, when nothing happens anyway, so that I now have a grand total of two weeks to travel as I please. Wheeeeee!

So I went and booked a plane ticket and rented a car at the same time (British Airways & Avis), and it actually turned out cheaper than renting with Hertz, where I am a member. Hrmph. So much for their Golden Super Plus Bonus Platinum Gold Stripes and Epaulettes program or whatever it's called now.

In the US, I've booked sweet, sweet, dirt cheap Motel 6 rooms all the way, so I shall be lulled to sleep each night, knowing that my room was likely made by an underpaid Mexican, probably an illegal at that. I shall drive my rental car on wide Interstates, paved over injun burial places and filled up with gas stolen from defenseless third world countries. I shall stuff face on greasy, unhealthy food filled with fat and carbs, grown in the most resource-wasting manner possible and probably given a trip round the world just to let out some more greenhouse gases. And I shall love every minute of it.

My itinerary:

18.12   Norway - Houston, TX

19.12  Houston. Meeting up with mah local homies, yo.

20.12  Houston - Lafayette, LA. Taking a route down towards the very coastline, south of I-20.

21.12  Lafayette - New Orleans, LA.

22.12  New Orleans - Venice - New Orleans. Going as far as I can go on paved roads down in the delta.

23.12  New Orleans. Exploring more of the architecture and culture of this fine city. Also, Happy Festivus!

24.12  New Orleans - Baton Rouge. Don't laugh, Baton Rouge has some really nice neighborhoods.

25.12  Baton Rouge - Dallas. Might as well use this stupid day for something useful, so I've planned to make the longest trek of the trip by far this day.

26.12  Dallas - Huntsville. Visiting the JFK memorial at the famous Dealy Plazza building, then going to see the Dubbya prez library.

27.12  Huntsville-College Station-Austin. Visting the Sam Houston museum and gravesite in Huntsville, then on to the Bush Sr. prez museum in College Station.

28.12  Austin - San Antonio. Spending most of my time at the LBJ prez museum/library outside Austin.

29.12  San Antonio. Further exploring this very nice city. I understand the lights along the River Walk is a sight to behold this time of year, then also the Alamo and the Governor's Palace and probably the Tower of the Americas too. So much to see and do in this gem of a city.

30.12  San Antonio - Houston. Back to hang with mah crew, yo.

31.12  Houston. Still hanging, yo.

01.01  Houston - Norway

Quote of the Day

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
- Calvin Coolidge

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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot

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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.
- John Adams

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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
- Kingman Brewster Jr

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Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Don Marquis

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain

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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson

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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent.
- Kathleen Norris

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- John Milton (from "Paradise Lost")

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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost - he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells

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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
- John W. Gardner

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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
- Linda Ellerbee

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
- Oscar Ameringer

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Aldous Huxley

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The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
- Thomas Paine

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The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"
- Sigmund Freud

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Draft beer, not people.
- Unknown

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Reality continues to ruin my life.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.
- Stephen Hawking

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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow

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War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
- Karl von Clausewitz

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by religious men who are certain they represent the Divine will. I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
- Abraham Lincoln