Daniel Norton

@danielnorton.me

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he/they; grandkids, cat(s), acting, baking, photos, computers Links: https://danielnorton.me/links Looking for the actor? See @danielnortonactor.com Looking for the gig worker? See @danielnorton.work

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If they’re going to allow CAROM, then they should allow BIDON, ETAPE, & ENDER
“Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! “We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the repercussions of hatred and division that conflicts sow. Indifferent to the economic and social consequences they produce, which we all feel.” — POPE LEO XIV
Who was grandfather? I’d ask my older brother. What was he like?
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“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” — Mark Twain, abt. 1899, from The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance
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Administration Says War in Iran Could End Soon or Quickly Escalate Into Biden’s Fault
I like to explain the meaning of “didactic” to people.
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.” — abolitionist Theodore Parker, 1853
The FAA has announced a strict no-party-balloon zone around US airports.