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  Why did the chicken cross the road. To get from the Left to the Right. …keeps popping into my head lately.

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  5 movies I'll have on, if only to listen to the soundtrack… Bullitt Hatari! The Pink Panther Amadeus Muppet Christmas Carol

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  Got an unsolicited text from an unknown phone number beginning 666-… I opted not to answer.

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  I can't shake the feeling that if Religion had done a better job the last several thousand years people would be a lot nicer than they are.

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  There are only two kinds of people… good people and bad people. Any other supposed difference is trivial.

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  "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken

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  https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2026/10/09

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  Happy Birthday!

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  btw: I thought 'Enterprise' missed a great opportunity relating how all the things we took for granted in TOS got developed. It could have been a problem-driven series instead of just another wild adventure series. sigh.

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  "He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch." -- Unknown

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  "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." -- Elbert Hubbard

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  "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." -- Peter Drucker

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  Happy Thanksgiving Day Canada! A lot of us Yanks give thanks that you're our neighbor.

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  "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw

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  "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson

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  "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Sam Levenson

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  I don't understand why any true believer ever goes (or has to go) to a doctor.

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  "There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." -- Bertrand Russell

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  "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." -- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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  "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich von Schiller

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  "Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." -- Philip K. Dick (some of the most useful advice I ever got)

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  It's the National Day of Reason… I'm sure MAGAs will castigate it as "woke"

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  In 1975 I was working on my Masters during the "Energy Crisis" and we proposed a car that used a small turbine (that would run on any fuel) to power electric motors in 4 wheels. Our hangup at the time was lousy batteries and computing power, but I still think it was a good idea.

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  "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry S Truman 33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) Happy Truman Day to all who celebrate.

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  "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled." -- Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

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  "Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving." -- David Letterman

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  It's Twilight Zone Day… …but then every day now feels like the Twilight Zone in Trumpland.

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  "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." -- Ogden Nash

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  https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2026/05/11

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  died May 11, 2001 😥