\u2022\u00a0 The last thing one wants to see is the last thing one might ever see.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 [ THIS THOUGHT INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ]<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 You know that Jesus is looking out for you when the milk in your fridge still smells good five days after the expiration date.\u00a0 Or your favorite team wins the championship game.\u00a0 Nothing vindicates religion more than getting the earthly outcomes you hope for.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Returning to film clich\u00e9s, what about the cold, unresponsive bureaucrats trying to screw an ordinary guy who has does something good but outside the norm — which means that he now has to vindicate himself, and to do so, he calls in a favor from a troubled friend on the inside that he knows from way back.\u00a0 And just when you think the guy’s case is lost, a stray piece of evidence shows up, which the troubled friend uncovers while being engaged in debauchery.\u00a0 The friend straightens himself out in time to present reliable testimony on behalf of the wrongly-accused.\u00a0 The bureaucrats lose, the nice guy gets on with his life, and the friend is lucky enough to meet a nice woman to keep him on the straight-and-narrow.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Abe Lincoln, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein and Christopher Hitchens walked into a bar — I was already there.\u00a0 We had a lively conversation.\u00a0 Galileo was sitting at a table in the corner, and we would have asked him to join us, but he spoke Italian and none of us spoke anything but English.\u00a0 (Einstein refused to speak German after World War II.) \u00a0 I asked the bartender to send a glass of grappa over to Galileo, which he seemed to appreciate, tilting his glass toward me and then gesturing that he might drop it, as if from the Tower of Pisa.\u00a0 But he held onto it and promptly downed it.\u00a0 Hitchens and Twain laughed, and so did I.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 At the end of the night, Abe got a little annoyed with me.\u00a0 He thought I should tip the bartender a penny, and he did not understand how anyone could consider this an insult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022\u00a0 It says something about our culture, how so many films involve a mild-mannered person who gets entangled with a insidious manipulator — initially taken in by him but ultimately ridding herself of him, usually by uncharacteristically violent means through … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb-dildo.png\")
<\/a>\u2022\u00a0 Advertising on Facebook is one thing, but this is getting out of hand.\u00a0 The other day when I signed on, I was confronted with the bizarre ads you see in the screenshot at right.\u00a0 I can’t imagine what I would have said on Facebook that caused it to show me such ads.\u00a0 Trump is a dick?\u00a0 (Never said that, at least not there.) And just today, another Facebook ad suggested that Regis Philbin died.\u00a0 What did I ever say about Regis?<\/p>\n