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Showing posts with label uncategorizable. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2026

Stop Listening

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     No, I’m not suggesting that you stop listening to me. Why would you think that?      This morning, Armond Boudreaux, author of the i...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Some End-Of-Year Thoughts

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     Janus has been prodding at my backbrain, prompting me to think those classical end-of-year thoughts. Specifically, I’ve been thinking a...
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Sunday, February 23, 2020

Thinking Outside The Box Dept.

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     Great God in heaven, what a morning this is proving to be! First the Wall Street Journal tells us that “avocadoes are violent,” and n...
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You’re Not Crazy, It’s The Rest Of The World Dept.

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     This might not strike you as news, but there are...persons, many of them walking about unconfined and unsupervised, who aren’t quite ...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

Quickies: Trolls

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     Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it. -- from a lapel button      I spend a lot of time thinking abou...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Surmises About Strategies

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     It’s unwise ever to assume that no one else is as perceptive – or as smart – as you are. There are plenty of smart folks wandering arou...
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Monday, July 1, 2019

Small, Smaller, Smallest

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     Good morning, Gentle Reader. I was going to launch a diatribe about the world-shaking obscenity currently most prominent in the news, b...
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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Some Innovators Should Be Hanged

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     …perhaps with a noose made from their “innovations,” if that can be managed.      We’ve known for centuries that “newer” isn’t always ...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

A Model For Aspiring Tough Chicks

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     I don’t know many men of any age or size who’d have the balls to attempt this:      A woman saved her dog from a cat-astrophe.      ...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Quickies: Hold The Outrage, Please

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     Via the invaluable Knuckledraggin’ My Life Away comes a story that requires more than a cursory glance:      The operation was serio...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Conversations

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     This one took place after this morning’s Mass. It is not funny: FWP: How are you today? Other Parishioner: Do you get this Hallowe...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

An Extended Retreat: A Midweek Rumination

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     On November 1, I will have been retired for six months. So, being an impatient sort, and aware of how dramatically these past months ha...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

I Promise You Won’t Believe This...

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...unless you view it for yourself: And cleanliness is next to godliness, you know.