Random Thoughts

Big Fishes Eat Small Ones, 1556, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

If an envelope that comes in the mail says "Important information" on the outside, that's a sure sign that it is extremely UNinmportant.

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Here's one of those things I see on TV that is so unlike real life I start yelling at the screen. A person comes home at night, enters the house or apartment. It's dark, but they don't turn on the light! They wander through the dark house into the kitchen for a drink (still in the dark) or into the living room to just sit on the couch in the dark. If it's a crime show, there's a killer lurking in the house who ambushes them in the dark. Or some unpleasant person from their past (with remarkable burglar skills) is in the house and surprises them with sarcastic remarks. Or their roommate has already been murdered and they stumble over the body in the dark. In any case, why didn't they just turn on the damn lights?!!?

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People keep saying, X is a distraction from Y. But, really, they are doing both X and Y because those are both things they want to do. Doing everything all at once is not a distraction, it is a strategy to overwhelm us.

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I just don't understand the mentality that looks at uber-rich people and says, "We need to give these guys more money."

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If a religion can be damaged by someone's disbelief or satire, then it is too weak to benefit anyone.

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Imagine the mind of someone who wants to make poor people poorer, hopes to see more children die, looks forward to increasing the number of homeless people, wants health care workers to be unemployed, and likes the spread of infectious diseases.

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