RIP Neil Armstrong
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. ” -Granger from Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Musings of the Exiled Sage: NPR: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
December 16, 2011The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his…
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#RipTroyDavis “They can take my body, but they can’t take my spirit.”
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Rest in peace:
Troy Davis
October 9, 1968 - September 21, 2011
Death by lethal injection at 11:08 PM EDT
“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
-Albert Camus, French philosopher
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