\u2022 Anyone who begins a sentence, “He has every right to say what he wants,” not only disagrees with what was said but thinks it was irresponsible to have said it.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The 100 Billionth Person “I’m Not Sure How to Spell It but That’s Not Going to Stop Me from Saying It” Award goes to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reader James C. Ramunno<\/a> for\u00a0 describing a Pirate outfielder’s demeanor as laxadazacle<\/em>.\u00a0 This made my morning.<\/p>\n \u2022 Non-believers should not be so hard on religion.\u00a0 More to the point, they should not be so selective in their opposition to religion.\u00a0 After all, religion is only one of many systems that humans developed over the millennia to help us rationalize our irrational behavior.<\/p>\n \u2022 Some people head down Asshole Road without much of a push.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nothing makes people cry more reliably than reminding them of their lost youth.<\/p>\n \u2022 The older I get, the more I accept that the world will not on its own become what I would like it to be in my lifetime.\u00a0 (Diagram that<\/a>.)\u00a0 For example, I don’t understand why people make paramount what is unimportant in practice — to wit, this Second Amendment fetish that many U.S. citizens so passionately express.\u00a0 Why guns?\u00a0 These are devices that launch projectiles with the intent of felling living things (or in the movies, blasting open locked doors).\u00a0 I have never needed to use a gun.\u00a0 For weeds I have Roundup; for ants there is Amdro.\u00a0 With people, I can use words, or silence, or locks, or the police.\u00a0 Sandy Hook notwithstanding, I don’t live in a world where I need a gun.\u00a0 I don’t think you do either.<\/p>\n \u2022 In the end, as treasures, we have our families, our friends and ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 Anyone who begins a sentence, “He has every right to say what he wants,” not only disagrees with what was said but thinks it was irresponsible to have said it. \u2022 The 100 Billionth Person “I’m Not Sure How … Continue reading