"I'm tired of egotists. They're more interested in themselves than in me." (My favorite joke lately.) I've been keeping a file of quotes and jokes for years. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. (My apologies to readers because all the formatting to attribute authors switched from the right edge of the page to the left. Usually, the author's name follows the quote. Darn Blue Host's skimpy tools! Also discovered, two versions of my autobiography, one completed in 2012, found under Home/About the Founder, and…

"When most of the ice is gone, the seerious global warming begins." Michael Dowd

As I turned off the daunting news, I barely noticed the ad to financially adept persons, an ad affirming, “A life well-planned.” Not mine.  I stumbled into college as part of the prereq for going to mortuary school.  An associate degree and a Certificate in Mortuary Science later, I liked it, so I went on to get a Bachelor's in Psychology and Philosophy.  (Perhaps I disappointed the kind family at the funeral home.)  I stumbled further into graduate school, taking my interest in philosophy and…

What a time we're in, somewhere between Shakespeare and the Marks Brothers, or perhaps Orwell's "Ministry of Truth" and Colbert's "truthiness." Is this tragedy or comedy? The Nightly News brings bad news, medical complications, and warnings about taking expensive new medicines advertised by cheery people dancing in their kitchens. Do you have to be sick to have fun? Be sure to consult your health care "provider." Away from the news, we can watch numerous versions of shows that alarm us with "murder!" Even PBS hawks…

Why no signature red tie expressing his angry aggression? Instead, he wore a bright blue tie, complaining about "blue Manhattan."  So-called Blue Democrats in New York and elsewhere are not legitimate Americans in his view.  He complained that the judge and jury were "rigged." "Everybody knows what happened here," he whined. Indeed, they do. He wasn't able to install a MAGA judge and jury. Instead, he had to put upwith ordinary Americans in an ordinary trial. Unlike the rest of his privilegedpast, expensive lawyers couldn't…

Whistle past the worries. The guy who didn't know his cholesterol, his BMI, his Net Worth, his I.Q., his Credit Score, his Asterological Sign, or his Ancestry.

"Patriotism is good here, but not for people in other countries"