It's A Binary World 2.0

Quotes

  • You will remember me

    (About this shirt my mom gave Scarlett) Scarlett: what does this mean? Eric: It means people will remember you. Scarlett: Why does grandma want people to remember me?

  • Worms

    Worms

    Me: and that’s why earth worms are good. Scarlett: Yeah, and other planet worms are bad.

  • Interesting Phrasing

    Interesting Phrasing

    I swear to God, I cannot play in my room by myself. -Scarlett

  • Scarlett at the Playground

    Scarlett at the Playground

    It’s good to play with you, but now I have to go home! -Scarlett to a playground full of kids

  • Cutting

    Cutting

    I asked my wife if she could show me how to cut a mango. This is what Scarlett said: You use scissors! And you cut! Open. Close. Open. Close. Put your fingers in the holes. Open. Close. And then I tried to recreate the situation while recording it. Here’s what she said with my prompting:

  • Martin Luther King Jr and The Baltimore Riots

    Martin Luther King Jr and The Baltimore Riots

    I’ve been meditating on a blog post about the riot in my figurative backyard. While I’m still unsure if whether I’ll end up writing anything about it, I came across some interesting MLK Jr quotes today. A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King Jr and this one seems to apply not…

  • Knowledge is Power

    Daddy, I have The Information! I got the pamphlet! -Scarlett after grabbing a pamphlet at the bank

  • The Library

    Yesterday I went to the library to learn things so I can learn to work as a doctor -Scarlett

  • Next time you hear about the 2nd Amendment to defend against tyranny….

    Some folks (especially Americans) seem to think that their AR-15s are a guarantor that they can resist tyranny. But guns are an 18th century response to 18th century threats to democracy. Capital doesn’t need to point a gun at you to remove your democratic rights: it just needs more cameras, more cops, and a legal…

  • Today’s quote

    A guy in a wheelchair with a hook for a hand is in a bad spot. -D.D. from work (who is wheelchair bound, but does not have hooks for hands)

  • Scarlett and Birds

    Don’t worry birds, I will feed you. Dad, feed the birds. -Scarlett speaking to the birds in the woods behind our house (and then to me) a couple weeks ago

  • Ok, Now you try it. -Scarlett, handing me her new Slinky

  • Scarlett begins using sentences

    Daddy, you wearing glasses! -Scarlett when she first saw me yesterday as she starts using sentences

  • Couldn’t have said it better myself

    A substantial percentage of outrage is bullshit. So is a substantial percentage of outrage about outrage, and so on. Outrage is often about consolidating political power and promoting the view that your political opponents are horrible people. Much of the dialogue about Mr. Robertson being suspended from A&E consists of partisans eager to use the…

  • This explains a lot of what Republicans do

    “What Mailer told me is that the CIA is basically a white Christian Protestant organization,” Fellwock said. “And white Christian Protestants have to find a devil in order to justify what they do. Their Christian values say they should help the poor, like the Communists were. But they were not helping the poor. They were…