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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
Please note I said “resident.” I’m not talking about becoming a Mexican citizen, because that’s right up there with alien abduction and chupacabra ranching for practicality and likelihood. A married couple like us could, in theory, get divorced, go to Mexico, find two deranged myopic hard-of-hearing Mexicans and
Men need a god. Otherwise they get confused and start worshiping themselves. They climb into a booster seat in the back of Beelzebub’s Dodge Caravan and think they’re driving. When I was young they taught us history. The nuns patiently trooped through the ages while we followed along
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash,
I had this friend when I was a kid. Let’s call him Fish. Lost track of him many years past. He was a hoot. Fish might be an example for us all. I’ll explain. His family was a huge Irish affair. There were something like eight of them
The world is moving at warp speed lately. The picture pretty much encapsulates how I’ve been dealing with it for my whole life. I’m not that old. I don’t fart dust or have God’s unlisted phone number or anything. But a lot of earthshaking shifts have taken place
I’ve been traveling again. I have to steel myself against the process. I knew going in what it would be like. The transportation schedules would be byzantine. The cab drivers wouldn’t speak English, or any other Romance language I could take a stab at. I understood from the
[Dave from the wrong coast, that faithful reader and generous contributor to my sons’ musical education, asked me in the comments of yesterday’s blogpost to
You don’t understand economics very well. No offense. I don’t know who you are, but I’m willing to defame you like that. Why do you
Well, we sold our house, and we’ve been very, very busy doing it. We haven’t been living on reds, Vitamin C and cocaine. More like
