Corrective...........................

“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” 


-Henri Bergson

Yeah, but how do you really feel...........................

..................sometimes the comment sections are priceless.

Scott's feeling a bit cranky today.......

Today I declare the phone companies to be enemies of the state. They are ruining everything you love, and everything you care about. And they are doing it right in front of you. 

-Scott Adams, as extracted from here

I've tried this at home....................

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Ouch.......................................

Fred Reed's latest rant:


"I love it: Donald Trump’s campaign reveals the establishment for what it is, a swamp of corruption  as fetid as those of Latin America. It is better entertainment than Vaudeville. The frantic scramble to rig the primaries, change the rules, and thwart the voters–anything to defend their cozy entanglement of political tapeworms–makes absurd any pretense of democracy."


And if that is not enough for you, try this on for size:


"It’s wonderful. The GOP is looking for someone that Hillary can beat. She would squash Kasich or Cruz like stepping on bugs. Trump might actually win. This the Republicans strive to avoid. What could make more sense?


"But it does make sense. The Republicans try desperately to ditch the only Republican candidate who could win the Presidency because…Hillary is one of them. Because, as every sentient being has by now noticed, the Republicans and Democrats are members of the same corrupt club of blood-sucking parasites, the action arm of the corporations, Wall Street, the Israeli lobby, and those who want the US to control the world at any cost–except, of course, to them. They are panicked at the rise of someone who might put first the interests of America. Better Hillary, a fellow parasite, than Trump, who isn’t."


And this is just Fred getting started.


The "elites" have struggled to understand the Trump phenomenon.  One doesn't have to agree with Fred Reed to sense that there are an awful lot of people who relish the opportunity to poke a finger or two in the collective eyes of the Washington D.C./New York City axis.

It's a mad, mad, mad world..............

..........Exhibit A:   About any excerpt from the Drudge Report:

The Trump Monster and............................

..................................................................a fable for our time:


And there was afright and desperation and rending of teeth and gnashing of hair  for many were the rice bowls threatened.


The darkest of horrors was that the serfs  might come to choose the manner of their government. For long years the Bicephalous Party had presided over that most desirable form of democracy in which the people had no power. This laudable state they had maintained by never talking about anything of substance, such as unending wars in remote lands beyond the edges of the maps, or the importation of slaves from curious and unwholesome countries or the manufactures of all things by foreign dwarves.


The rest of Fred Reed's scurrilous commentary is here

I understand that feeling.....................

      In J. G. Ballard's sci-fi short story "The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista," there are psycho-sensitive houses that can be driven to hysteria by their owners' neuroses.  Picture sentient walls sweating with anxiety, a staircase keening when an occupant dies, roof seams fraying from a mild sense of neglect.  Some days I swear I'm living in that house right now.

-Diane Ackerman,  The Human Age:  The World Shaped By Us

Snowflakes of the World, Unite...............!

...................................We know this is parody (only) because Matt Walsh is writing it, but still..................

Dear Walmart, Someone Insulted Me In One of Your Stores. Your CEO Must Now Resign.

Full rant is here.

Surprisingly easy to do.............................

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I wonder if...............................................

..................I can use this as an excuse to get out of jury duty.

Uncomfortable.....................................

"As long as you feel good about yourself, you can do anything!"   That's a total lie.  You never made one positive change in your whole life when you felt good about yourself.  You make positive change when you get uncomfortable with yourself.
-Larry Winget

On Puritans.......................

"At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him.  At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing."

"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."

-Henry Louis Mencken, as excerpted from A Little Book in C Major

Not feeling it today......................

What Sweeties do best.......................

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Making friends and influencing people................

Road Rage Karma................................

thanks jonco

At this age, not me........................

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Not right now...................

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Feelings..................

Hobson's choice.........

I was pretty sure it was supposed to be a "Hobbesian Choice,"
but according to the Oracle Google, I was wrong.  Interesting
historical tidbit about our language here