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Compliments of Nehama Verter via Flickr

Compliments of Nehama Verter via Flickr

Bad apples, loose cannons, clanging pots, people who cry wolf. Historically, troublemakers (TMs) have been characterized under rubrics of varying similitude. But they all boil down to the same thing: individuals being disruptive in an attempt to feel and make themselves look important. It’s rare to find a technically skilled live wire; typically, TMs fit the profile of people with time on their hands, and little to show for their laziness. Turn the page…

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Compliments of professor megan via Flickr

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.” 

From The Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, March 6, 1960 Turn the page…

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