"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere--be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."

—excerpt from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith


Aislin's cartoon from the Montreal Gazette.


View more Political Persuasion posters from this collection. Some stunning images from America's violent past.

—link via everlasting blort

An excerpt from a recent interview with American literary giant Kurt Vonnegut:

"It's my country, not theirs," he continued lashing the Bushies. "And they've trashed the reputation of Americans. ... It's possible to destroy a great civilization. Bush and those people have no love for it at all."

—thanks to maud newton for the link.