If It Feels Good, Do It

On This Day In History
1841: President Tyler Is burned in effigy outside the White House

Quote Of The Day
"Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them."
(John Tyler)

If the Epstein files ever get published, I believe we will know of several hundred such people, many of them very famous indeed.

Bonus Quote Of The Day
"Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street."
(P.J. O'Rourke)

Bonus Bonus Quote Of The Day
"Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors. Genuine sustainabillity, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature."
(David W. Orr)

Totally Ramboed a 10 kilometer run in 33 degree heat this morning. Well, I have to keep fit if I'm to maintain that P.J. O'Rourke lifestyle.

Libertine

Just because you feel good,
Doesn't make you right.
Hedonism

The Epstein files will be referred to in tomorrow's blip as well; can you guess why?