Troops:
There’s an expression, “stay put.”
Who was ever “put” in the first place?  I don’t remember ever being put..  And what kind of word is “put” anyway?  It’s silly.  As silly as “pudding.”

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Time Saver

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
- Christopher Hitchens

I later learned this was an old Latin adage: “Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.”  Don’t you feel better knowing the original Latin?  I know I do.
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Fortune Cookie Wisdom
Crack open your fortune cookies and, savor each of these:

• Bastards need to suffer.  It helps them stand themselves.
• The guilt of the quick raises monuments to the dead.
• The idea of sacrifice disguises the hope of saving one’s own skin.
• Morals are the distillate of security operations.
• Humor is a luxury to happiness, a necessary to despair.
• He that is without sadness among you, let him cast the first stone.
• Security is the reciprocal to change.
• Animals should work; the duty of man is pleasure.  Sacrifice is for saints.
• Don’t cry for help.  There is no help.  But give a signal.

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth.  We are all crew. – Marshall McLuhan
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Bumpersticker
Militant Agnostic On Board
I Don’t Know And Neither Do You!
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Dirty Jobs
This clip is about 20 minutes, and it’s worth it.  It’s about the value and valor of manual labor, among other things, including:  maybe you should NOT follow your passion!
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Anon Strikes Again
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.  A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.  A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.  A man marries a woman hoping she will never change, but she does.  A woman has to have the last word in any argument.  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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Religious Significance
I know three Buddhism jokes, and I worry about spending the best one here when I could rock the house in person.  But I love you all too much to withhold it.  Remember me in your prayers.

When the guru and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery was such a nuisance that it distracted them.

So the guru ordered that the cat be put in a closet during the evening practice.

When the guru died, the cat continued to be put in a closet during meditation.

And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and put in a closet.

Centuries later, learned scholars wrote treatises about the religious significance of putting a cat in a closet for meditation practice.
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Parting Shot
A beautiful thing is never perfect. – Egyptian proverb

This is a Big Idea – worthy of some no-cat meditation.  If everyone were perfect…how boring would that be?  It’s the differences among us that make people interesting, conversations worth having…all that.  So don’t complain about other people – unless you absolutely HAVE to.

Which brings to mind this notorious counterpoint:

If you can’t say something nice about someone, sit right here by me. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

So now where are we?

Don’t worry, because…. um, just don’t.
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