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- Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. We don’t lose our sense of humor because we get old. We get old because we lose our sense of humor. The problem with humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood. And Joey G was cute when he was being humorless…
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- Mother’s Day can be a torment, especially if your mother’s been dead less than a year… Men are what their mothers made them. And my mother was slightly insane. She told us baked potato skins were bad for us – so she could devour ours. Hmm… I write a mental letter to my mother every day… and apparently so does my brother…
- Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one up. In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to love… but us ‘old men’ turn to painting the house. I may not be perfect, but I am avid – about not giving a damn. After all, as I told my mammoth, cigar-puffing, Italian landlord: Look what ‘youse’ guys did to that last Jewish carpenter…
- I don’t do guilt. I definitely don’t embrace collective guilt when we should be implementing collective responsibility. Guilt is like bondage. It is a thief… it robs from your life. It doesn’t garner my sympathy, especially because ‘sympathy’ in my dictionary is located between shit and syphilis…
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Tag Archives: Syria
Life is beautiful but people are crazy. It’s just the way we are. Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. And that’s what Louie-duh-too-sane-lawyer was trying to explain to crazy-Ian…
Louie-duh-lawyer isn’t the only one over at the Twin Cigar Shoppe who is absolutely certain that Ian is insane — even for this planet. Which is why we dub him ‘the alien.’ Apparently Ian thinks mostly when he’s squatting on … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, America, crazy, Crimea, devil, genius, gun, Home Security, insane, Iraq, Italian, Jews, Korea, lawyer, mental, MOAB, Philadelphia, Russia, special-ops, stupidity, Syria, Texas, Trump, Zeus
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Plans are wasted; but planning is everything. And in a troubled world where we are paying more but getting less, we are pissed. But the real problem is we are lying hypocrites. We feel entitled. We pray on Sunday morning then rage on the road driving home. And United Airlines and Wells Fargo merely did unto us what we do unto others…
I don’t know how my father learned how to be the boss in starting and running his little chainsaw factory that, at times when contracts were due, employed a hundred men and women in those post-war labor-intensive days. Perhaps it … Continue reading
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Tagged Assad, Banks, Big Business, boss, candy, CEO, Chicago, Christian, Congress, corporate, dividends, Easter, Gallup, Golden Rule, Great War, Jewish, Kentucky, Louisville, Main Street, MBA, Muslim, O'hare, sarin, sheep, Silver, stocks, Syria, Twitter, Uber, United Airlines, Wall Street, Washington, Wells Fargo
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Does it seem like killing our children is getting to be like ‘adult entertainment?’ But what-duh-hell-what-duh-heck hang ‘em up by the neck. That’s why I hate vegetarians – they won’t eat anything that can have children. Hmm… come to think of it, we adults ain’t nothing but outdated children…
They’re starving the children to skin and bones in Darfur. They’re burning the children in Nigeria. They’re raping the children in churches everywhere. They’re depriving the children of most everything that used to be affordable in Venezuela… Brazil… Argentina… They’re … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Apple, Argentina, Brazil, Caitlyn, China, communist, constitution, Darfus, Edward Snowden, FaceBook, Gulf of Tonkin, Homeland Security, iPhone, Iraq, liberal, nazi, Nigeria, Patriot Act, San Bernardino, sex, Syria, terrorist, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam
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America is a country where ‘In G-d we trust’… All others must pay cash. There are many Catholics, Protestants and Jews in our enormous jail gulags for murder, yet we don’t fear their religion, like we do Muslims. And I have found in my global sojourns that most people just want to live in peace under blue skies and white clouds… surrounded by family.
The poetic irony in the argument across the street got us all laughing. We were blowing cigar smoke at The Twin Smoke Shoppe in the once mostly Italian immigrant neighborhood of South Philadelphia. And suddenly a couple of fellows – … Continue reading
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Tagged 911, America, Arab, Asian, Baptist, black, catholic, Chinese, cigar, French, German, Greeks, Iraqi, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Jewish, jihad, Lebanese, Mexicn, Muslim, Nazis, Palestianian, Paris, Planned Parenthood, Prostestant, refugees, Russian, Saudi Arabia, South Philadelophia, Syria, Twin Smoke Shoppe, Washington
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Today we live in the age of the refugee in exile. Those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we return at night don’t really understand what the experience of a refugee is like. Nevertheless, to stop this horror we must inflict something even more horrible…
As a teenager my grandfather escaped conscription and a lifetime of servitude in the Tsar’s army by hiding in a big hand basket on a railroad freight car that brought him through Poland and Europe. Eventually he hopped a ship … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, America, Arab, Asia, Assad, Chie, Coca Cola, Darfur, Dresden, Egypt, Europe, exile, Germany, Greece, Hewlett-Packard, Hiroshima, Hungary, IBM, immigrant, immigrat, Indian, ISIS, Jewish, jihadist, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, liberty, Nagasaki, Nazis, Neville Chamberlain, Palestinian, peace in our time, Peru, Poland, rebel, refugee, Russia, Russian, Rwanda, Sahara, Schwarzenegger, Superman, Syria, Three Musketeers, Tsar, Tyrant
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When I am in a bad mood I don’t listen. And all of us have pretty serious mood swings. Fear may be the mother of morality. But evidence is accumulating that the relatively tiny doses of lithium in our ground water does improve our moods. So let’s add some more…
I was conversing with a group of psychiatrists the other day when they all got around to nodding and smiling like a bunch of fraternity pranksters. They were giddy at the idea of adding more lithium to our water reservoir … Continue reading
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When will the Hamas also learn: That life is never fair, and perhaps that’s a good thing for most of us that it is not. That truth exists; only lies are invented. And to beware of the wrath of a patient man. As my dear ol’ Pappy exclaimed: ‘Fair?! The only fare I know is what I pay to ride the bus!’ And dats duh truth…
My dear ol’ bourbon sippin’ Pappy used to beat us. Rather regularly. My older brother-duh-doc and me. And sometimes the beatings could be rather innovative. Now remember, this was post WWII when many fathers – and even mothers — offered … Continue reading
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