Miscellany II

It takes time and cultivation for the seeds of our neuroses to fully blossom.

The prime requisite for any successful collaboration is generosity.

Take nothing (and no one) for granted.

When one hedges one's bet, it usually means that one is holding a losing hand.

Those who seem to have everything you want often also have a lot that you don't want.

Now we learn that the latest mother of octuplets is a single mom who already had six other children and lives with her parents. Imagine the cost to the taxpayers of subsidizing this woman's neurotic prolificacy for the next twenty years. (Could that have been what she had in mind?) This was not a medical miracle, it was a medical sideshow. Where is the outrage from the AMA? And where is the condemnation from our sanctimonious religious leaders?--if their god intended octuplets, he'd have given Eve eight teats. The fertility "expert" who enabled this unconscionable obscenity should lose his professional licence--permanently-- and be sentenced to hand-washing these babies' diapers until they're all fully potty-trained!

Business as Usual

I am disappointed by President Obama's apparent inability to prevent elements of his own Party from exploiting his "non-partisan" Economic Stimulus Plan as a vehicle to further their Progressive social/cultural agendae.

Miscellany

To see, one must look; to hear, one must listen. To feel, one must touch.

Desires fulfilled may satisfy; desires frustrated can inspire.

Learn to be Still; not like a void but like a placid sea.

Until one develops a sense of balance, it may be a good idea to use training wheels.

With all our modern toys, how come we aren't having fun yet?

Get REAL (or REAL will get you!)

REALITY is what will be left after we've all killed each other off defending our own Realities.

REALITY is the Energizer Bunny on steroids--and with an attitude!

The same REALITY is the context of all our disparate delusions.

REALITY is amoral, nonjudgmental, and utterly indifferent to your passions.

What happens when a fixed notion confronts a dynamic REALITY? Regrettably, usually nothing.

Catch 22

Incessant partisan wrangling in Washington supports my contention that Big Government can do nothing well; still, government must do something. (Whatever opposing intransigents finally manage to cobble together, don't expect it to be pretty!)

Language-cop Citations

Lesbian activist: "We've got to educate people and let them know there's no difference between gay people and straight people." Well, I can think of one difference!

"I don't think the president's conduct rises to the level of an impeachable offense." Don't you mean sinks to the level...?!

J.R.R. Tolkein: "All that is gold does not glitter..." Did J.R.R. really mean (as he wrote) that nothing that is gold glitters or that not all that is gold glitters?!

"Turn right at the red light." Got it--and if the light is green?!

"That's the honest truth" is redundant, Mr. President--and that's a true fact!