Arrgghhh!


On this date in 2012, Dad and Phillip decided to become pirates. Then mom called them in for lunch…and that was that.

It’s the dismal tide

“You know, if you’d have told me 20 years ago I’d see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair, bones in their noses, I just flat-out wouldn’t have believed you.”

“But I think once you quit hearing “sir” and “ma’am,” the rest is soon to foller.”

“It’s the tide. It’s the dismal tide. It is not the one thing.”

no one left to speak for me.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

– Martin Niemöller