WWIV

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with bricks and stones" - Albert Einstein

Parenting

"Kids - just because I don't care, doesn't mean I'm not listening" -  Homer

Chickens

"I dream of a better world, where chickens can cross the road without having their motivation questioned"

Doubt

 

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd" - Voltaire

Immortality

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work - I want to achieve it by not dying" -- Woody Allen

The Right Word

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning."  - Mark Twain

Man vs Woman

 Women are crazy. Men are stupid.  The main reason woman are crazy is that men are stupid"  - George Carlin

Crabby

The other crustaceans learned to never approach Bert until after before his morning coffee

Research in Bars

"I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books." - P. J. O-Rourke

Republicans

"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." - P. J. O'Rourke

Rights and Duties

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - P. J. O'Rourke

Addiction

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the drug be alcohol or morphine or carbohydrates or idealism." Carl Jung

Into the Future...

Friday the 13th

You are doomed.  Have a nice day.

Time

 

Time is God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. 

Fear

Tarsier

Tarsiers - high in the canopy

Expose yourself to Nature

Fools Rush In

"It ain't what you don't know that get's you into trouble - its what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain

Create Yourself!

The Wall

"Knock down the old gray wall  - be a part of it all"

Friendship

"Friendship has no survival value but it adds value to survival" - C.S. Lewis

Sleep

 

"Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Apathy

"Hate is not the opposite of love, apathy is" - Rollo May

Happy New Year!

"Let's bury all the damaged years and throw them in grave and drink a toast to better days and those we couldn't save" - T.D. Weary

Placebo Effect

The good news: Your placebo pills work as well as your real medicine.  The bad news: Your real medicine doesn't work.

Auld Lang Syn

Shid ald akwentans bee firgot,an nivir brocht ti mynd?
Shid ald akwentans bee firgot, an ald lang syn?

Star Trek Christmas

Expendability

Merry Christmas!

the Ass Family

The Asses next door

Hokey Pokey

          What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?

Vegetarianism

It is useless for the gazelle to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism if the lion if of a different opinion.

Skydiving

"If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving."  -- Henny Youngman

Mind over Matter

Age is an issue of mind over matter - if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Politicians and Diapers

 

Politicians and diapers should be changed often - for the same reason.

Shit Creek

 

Happy Valentines!

Love in not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.  But it bears it out even to the edge of doom  If this be error
and upon me proved. I never writ, nor no man ever loved. -  William Shakespeare

Denial

I read somewhere that drinking is bad for your health  - so I decided to give up reading

Pharmacist

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory

Driver's Seat

"Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run over people"

The Cheese

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"  -- Stephen Wright

Ephemeral Girl

Sister of Ice, Symmetrical Lace 
  Daughter of Frost,  Floating in Space 
 Married to Cold,  Lives in a White World 
What shall we call this Ephemeral Girl?

Craps

"Sometimes you have to roll a Hard Six"  -  Commander Adama - Battlestar Galactica

Moving

"It doesn't matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop"  - Confucius

Hotness in the Garden

He was so hot and she was so hot that when they got together, the combined hotness was so very hot that
the smoldering sneer of his narcissistic posturing melted with the sashaying sway of her girlish flirtation and formed a flaming pool of molten hotness.  It was  a hotness beyond all other hotnesses.  No one could recall anything approaching this level of hotness.  He leaned toward her with chiseled chin forged in Adonis hotness and she looked up with her diamond fox eyes sparkling with a Cleopatra-in-Hell hotness.  Vibrating, colorful flowers and rainbows flowed around them in shifting, psychedelic perfection.  And then she handed him the apple....

All in

Even when you've been dealt a weak hand, you can still go "All In."

Wonder and Belief

"I would rather have a mind opened by the wonder of nature than closed by the doctrines of religion" - Gary Spence

Time

"Time doesn't change us - it unfolds us" - Max Frisch

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come -  Victor Hugo