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"The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better." ~ Charlie Munger

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"...an old man is twice a child." William Shakespeare Or sometimes only a child.

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"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." ~ Albert Einstein

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." ~ Oscar Wilde 🥸

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Steve K @steveknapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods." ~ Luther Burbank 🥸

Steve K @steveknapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods." ~ Robert W. Service

Trump and Nutlick deserve each other.

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Just enough to win a close election. The electorate is a big part of the problem.

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"Shame is a soul eating emotion." ~ Carl Jung If Carr had a soul that is.

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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it." ~ Pliny the Elder

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." ~ Voltaire

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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." ~ Frederick Douglass

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"Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush." ~ Horace

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"Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems." ~ Aldous Huxley

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"Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites." ~ Kallistos Ware

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." ~ Andre Gide

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"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you." ~ Karl Lagerfeld 😱

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"True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

"That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity." ~ Bergen Evans

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"[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot." ~ Groucho Marx

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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." ~ John Steinbeck 🥸

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"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." ~ Jorge Luis Borges

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Him and all his enablers.

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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." ~ George Washington

"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me." ~ Lord Chesterfield 🥸

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"One-in-five 2024 Trump voters now regret their vote, especially younger Americans, Black and Latino Americans, independents or non-MAGA Republicans, and moms." So, 80% are still on the MAGA train. Sigh.

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Ouch. Good thing Tom has a thick hide. 🥸

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"If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him." Mark Twain Ah, to dream... 🥸

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That will show us, I guess.

I've been fine with the vast majority of docs who were willing to sit through my lengthy organ recitals. The one physician I couldn't handle was an 80 year old rheumatologist who absolutely hated private insurance (but still accepted it). He was a twit.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Mark Twain 🥸

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"A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit." ~ Lord Chesterfield 🥸

"Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!" ~ Luigi Pirandello

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"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority." ~ Charles Kuralt

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Maria Bartiromo is looking for a new gig.

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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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"For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity." ~ Elon Musk

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