"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Frickin’ Laser Beam A man who held up a doughnut shop in New Orleans, La., apparently couldn’t afford a gun: he used a laser pointer as his weapon. “I was very frightened,” said the clerk he lit up behind the counter. She opened the safe for the man, who escaped with an undisclosed sum. Meanwhile, police in Gwinnett, Ga., say Bobby Tyrone Hill, 45, allegedly robbed a bank, carjacked a getaway vehicle, and caused several injury hit-and-run car crashes before being apprehended. The weapon he used to enable his crime spree? A broken beer bottle. (New Orleans Times-Picayune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...When beer bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have beer bottles. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
