Archive For October 31, 2020
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. – Arthur Conan Doyle In the year 2020, no imagination seems needed. I live in a bubble within a gated community. Double bubble. In typical Republican fashion, almost everybody decorates for Halloween but Trick Or Treating is strictly prohibited. If you’re over fifty-five, you shouldn’t be out…
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. – Erica Jong “The Power of the Dog”by Rudyard Kipling There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and women to flll our day;And when…
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. – Robert Brault The missus and I once played a drinking game whereby we’d take a slug every time somebody said the F-word on the new show, which had been favorably reviewed. The show was “Deadwood”…
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds. – Boyd K. Packer The man placed an order for one hamburger, French fries and a large soft drink. He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife. He then carefully counted out the French…
I have race walked exactly once. The same number of times I have performed many another bizarre or chancy act. Some things a person need not try but once. Too many years ago to count, I was in college somewhere out west, at very high altitude, and it was the Campus Indoor Track & Field…
To argue with a man who has renounced the use … of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead…. – Thomas Paine. I like to do stuff and then see if I can locate some manner of intelligent explanation. This brief explanation of list poetry…
From “On The Road” in Track & Field News. May 1982. Cover price $1.75. Auckland, April 3 – Steve Scott blazed to the fastest mile ever run by a human – 3:31.25 – but he only chuckled about it. Road miling made it from the sublime to the ridiculous with one swell foop. Scott’s scorching…
Monsters don’t get happy endings. – Paula Stokes Imagine your daughter comes home She’s been on a date with a new young man never been out with him before but he seemed nice. Imagine your daughter comes home and tells you, she’s been raped. Do you let her date him again? Asking for a undecided voter….
A Republican with the gall to run for re-election, he’s chairing the Senatorial Judiciary hearing for the Outrageous ACB and this is his closing. May God help us all. I’m going to tell you about where I grew up. I don’t know why – it just seems to be a good way to end this…
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog. – Charles M Schulz