“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.”-Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976)
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Thought For the Day: You Must Protest. It Is Your Diamond Duty. Ah But In Such An Ugly Time, the True Protest Is Beauty
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Standing At the Brink
Standing At the Brink
by Michael Doyle
This age of prevailing ill-liberalism
Breeds little but despair and pessimism
There's a breakdown in our society
That has brought us into a time of anxiety
Once beautiful cities have turned into blight
It seems we are falling into our darkest night
Our pharmaceutically paid for addictions
Only serve to feed our electronic distractions
While the future is saddled with yesterday's debt
Poor economic decisions have bled and wept
This nation is divided by oligarchy and mob rule
Ponzi schemes of student loans riddle our schools
Whatever happened to the common good?
What is it that we've misunderstood?
True progress no longer seems the priority
As we slip and edge toward civil war or tyranny
We've lost our way from progressive empathy
It's not led to the birth of a new humanity
The elite see the people as a threat to democracy
Preferring instead their own sense of eco-theology
At every turn, the liberal attempt at a solution
Has added up to naught but contemptible pollution
All of which has added to worsen the divide
And resulted in the people seeking to decide
What it is that will be then be next
As the historical inevitability moves and connects
In a plumbing project of recovery and recreation
It will overturn the relied-on constitution
Changes seem destined for history's dustbin
As our leaders fail again and yet again
And ordinary people seek order and stability
We desperately hope for our nation's continuity
(c) April 19, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals Or Enemies Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and of Mutual Assistance
“Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.‘ – James Wilson, in The Works of the Honourable James Wilson (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 106 & 103-105.
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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.” – Fred Brooks
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These Electric Feelings
These Electric Feelings
by Michael Doyle
It is once, maybe twice
Your head starts reeling
It's easy to pay the price
Getting lost in these electric feelings
You know you've found the right one
And that the search is finally done
It's not like you'll evade the snares
But you cannot be anything but fair
Everyone has their pick
They might reach it quick
Or they might reach it slow
But in the end, we all know
The words come like a chokehold
Of that something special told
It's a feeling you must keep going on
And your pulse rate is beating strong
All the emotions fall into right place
Somewhere between my leather and your lace
It's that vital point where we start to melt
Giving in to the feelings that are already felt
It's that semi-cryptic point of empathy
Knowing that not everyone will necessarily be happy
But it's not about living for the sympathy
It's more the need to know that you really feel me
Here in this modernistic age
Life is a flash that turns its page
It moves at an artificially fast pace
And all we can hope for is our best end of race
Listening to each other's hearts talking
Watching ourselves as if feelings walking
Doing the best that we are capable
To make peace at feeling a bit inter-changeable
At least, that is, to a certain degree
Refusing the chains but loving for free
Until we are unable to get enough of one another
Are we ready, babe, to truly love each other?
(c) April 18, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Oppression. Without Law, Liberty Also Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Licentiousness
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Worth the Turning of Attention
Worth the Turning of Attention
by Michael Doyle
The time has come and the time is now
To remember the nation's virtues somehow
Because when the Left has gotten out of control
There is virtually nothing to ever console
The loss of some fundamental beliefs
That without which we are stuck in grief
As our bleeding hearts become tyrannical
The path they weave becomes quite maniacal
There is no good in the dumbing down of society
To make someone lesser ease their social anxiety
In no way makes our world any more equitable
We should lend ourselves to rewarding the capable
How is it that we have been argued into duplicity?
Has the Left truly forgotten that to protect liberty
We must always protect the others' freedoms
Instead of turning the nation into a fiefdom
Where instead of seeking the leadership of the meritorious
We stumble as we crumble into skin tone being victorious
And what good is there in punishing all dishonesty?
When doing so interferes with the business of society
Handing our best chances over to illegal residents
Like anyone in this land could be made our president
Is something that our parents could not have conceived it
Someone pulled the puppet's strings and then believed it
As something desirable, and though life in its levity
Deserves moments that recognize its certain brevity
We should not desert what were the principles of this land
To be led by the post-Marxism of Frankfurt's command
Nothing is as loved by tyrants as blind obedience
But that doesn't make our nation become resplendent
We have become believers in outrageous blasphemy
And in doing this, we are trading in decent authority
Giving away consent of the governed for rule by agency
In a manner that is Marxian in its spoiled precedency
If we keep this path of the despised and the damned
In the end, we are to blame for allowing to be rammed
From our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
To the theft of all private property to chase bliss
That cannot be found by being duped in our naivety
Into trading our natural liberty for allegiance to authority
(c) April 18, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” – Clarence Darrow
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Beautifully Amazed
Beautifully Amazed
by Michael Doyle
We paint a life seen together
Certain that our blessings are better
As we talk into the night
Before we know it, it's the morning light
Learning things of complexity
As we break it down into simplicity
Life can be overly demanding
But it comes down to our understanding
We talk about new traditions
We will make it into our rendition
Of our dreams spoken aloud
And my vision of you simply astounds
As we have shared our words together
And kept our spaces safe and better
All the moments that we quietly share
These are the moments that show we care
All these quiet moments looking into your eyes
Are the special moments that make me realize
That your ways will always be the best plays
And that you make me beautifully amazed
(c) April 17, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Let Each Citizen Remember At the Moment He Is Offering His Vote…That He Is Executing One of the Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society For Which He Is Accountable To God and His Country
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote … that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” – Samuel Adams (1781)
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