Mike Sommer
@mikesommer.bsky.social
Random thoughts, some relevant to the day and some not.
"Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators."
• Michael Barone
• Michael Barone
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators."
• Michael Barone
• Michael Barone
"I didn't really say everything I said."
• Yogi Berra
• Yogi Berra
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"I didn't really say everything I said."
• Yogi Berra
• Yogi Berra
"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Muhammad Iqbal
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Muhammad Iqbal
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos."
• Polybius
• Polybius
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos."
• Polybius
• Polybius
"Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it."
• Natalie Imbruglia
• Natalie Imbruglia
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it."
• Natalie Imbruglia
• Natalie Imbruglia
Goodbye to the filth of BlueSky.
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
• Thomas Aquinas
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
• Thomas Aquinas
September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Goodbye to the filth of BlueSky.
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
• Thomas Aquinas
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
• Thomas Aquinas
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
• Marilyn Manson
• Marilyn Manson
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
• Marilyn Manson
• Marilyn Manson
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
• Leo Tolstoy
• Leo Tolstoy
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
• Leo Tolstoy
• Leo Tolstoy
"When we use the words domestic terrorism, we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims."
• Malcolm Wrightson Nance
• Malcolm Wrightson Nance
September 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"When we use the words domestic terrorism, we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims."
• Malcolm Wrightson Nance
• Malcolm Wrightson Nance
"I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are."
• Mark Cuban
• Mark Cuban
September 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are."
• Mark Cuban
• Mark Cuban
"Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror."
• Colin Powell
• Colin Powell
September 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror."
• Colin Powell
• Colin Powell
"In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage."
• Sun Tzu
• Sun Tzu
September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage."
• Sun Tzu
• Sun Tzu
"I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right."
• Ray Dalio
• Ray Dalio
September 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right."
• Ray Dalio
• Ray Dalio
"Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost."
• John Lydon
• John Lydon
September 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost."
• John Lydon
• John Lydon
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
• Charles de Gaulle
• Charles de Gaulle
September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
• Charles de Gaulle
• Charles de Gaulle
"Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people."
• Ron Holland
• Ron Holland
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people."
• Ron Holland
• Ron Holland
Remember, New York, you get what you vote for.
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remember, New York, you get what you vote for.
"Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish."
• Emile M. Cioran
• Emile M. Cioran
September 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish."
• Emile M. Cioran
• Emile M. Cioran