Blunt Wit

So why do you read anything anyway? Great literature, newspapers, magazines, blogs; every word we digest builds up emotional muscle, laughable ligature, spiritual sinews.
Like calories, we intake words to live. They inform us, educate us, entertain us and on rare occasions even enlighten us. Unlike bricks and mortar, they do not crumble [...]

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Some ardent junkies never ever leave their widescreens because so many exciting shows get broadcast week in and week out on US TV. Little beknownst to them, however, these choice shows are but the lucky survivors of a brutal Darwinian whittling process. You see, prior to each season, studio execs screen a multitude [...]

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Some days insight fills you like helium does a balloon.  You float along with a merry lightness of being.  And sometimes the signposts of life light up in bright neon and suddenly you know where you are going and why you are here.
Sadly, my tale today describes the other sort of day.  The one where [...]

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So you might have heard a piece that runs occasionally on National Public Radio called “This I Believe” in which Americans from all walks of life share their personal philosophies and core values that guide their daily lives. That show itself is based on a similar show from the 1950’s. I really enjoy [...]

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So on a recent flight I felt queasy and slid the little white bag out of the seat pouch in front of me and drew it to my mouth.

This sent my two seat mates into rapid, perpendicular leans away from me. No feigned concern registered on their faces. Just abject terror. [...]

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Have you ever been tongue tied, rendered mentally or emotionally vacant; found yourself searching, praying for an excuse for your own insouciance?
Well, I have.
And to assist you in coming up with that ‘just so’ pretext for any transgression, big or small, I have decided to give up a few of my exculpatory gems for your [...]

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I’ve come across several characters recently and had been struggling mightily to figure the impetus to write them up in a blog when my daughter came along and sparked my imagination. I’ve long since learned to take fickle inspiration whenever and wherever she strikes.
So I had dropped my daughter and her friend Jessica of [...]

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So if you have never heard of CL or Craigslist then you are probably not of this earth. I even heard whispered they are currently in the process of setting up a CL for the moon, although the only listings so far are a few used golf balls and a couple of old tattered [...]

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So many years ago I was doing my best not learn Chinese while studying in Beijing. This was before China had opened up and become the economic juggernaut that it is today: pre Olympics. pre-Tiananmen, hell, it felt Pre-Cambian.
Anyway, as a student we had to wash our clothes on a washboard, there [...]

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No I am not asking, faux gansta, what kind of car your drive or how you view the world at large. My question is more specific to your gender. How do you put the roll of toilet paper on the roller-thingy?
Do you put it on over …

Or under …

Apparently 98% of men ‘roll [...]

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