America does not have a health care system; what modern medicine has created is an illness maintenance system. ~Morris Hyman, M.D., paraphrased

“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”―  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw