#1401: | Among the animals, our closest relative is really the dog. We are eager to please, loyal to a fault and willing to follow others anywhere. |
#1402: | If psychic phenomena are real, it is clear they are an unreliable tool for interacting with the world. |
#1403: | The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He doesn't give a shit about you. |
#1404: | The connundrum of romance is that once you are committed to someone, you're also imprisoned with them. |
#1405: | Wisdom overheard in Bar Harbor: "Eating take so much time. We could see a lot more if only we didn't spend so much time eating." |
#1406: | A "craft fair" should never be mispronounced "crap fair," but I keep doing it. Look at all this crap! Future garage sale material. |
#1407: | My new philosophy essay: "The Shamanism of Luxury" http://bit.ly/jv0Tg (Kilroy Cafe #52) |
#1408: | Wisdom overheard from tourists: "Eating takes so much time. We could see a lot more if we didn't spend so much time eating." |
#1409: | Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, you have vanity, not art. |
#1410: | Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, all you have vanity, not art. |
#1411: | Creative writing classes are a fraud. You can't teach creativity. Either you figure it out on your own and do it, or you don't. |
#1412: | An adorable little puppy is just the Trojan Horse for an expensive 10-year burden. |
#1413: | Being good looking tends to stunt your growth. |
#1414: | LA Times: "Vegas dreamers go all in" http://bit.ly/GmTQf - The city of bright lights is now the city of broken dreams. |
#1415: | LA Times: "Borderline personality disorder grows as healthcare concern" http://bit.ly/a7flG - Almost 6% of the US population! |
#1416: | In Borderline disorder, the most effective treatment is the patient directly experiencing the consequences of her own actions. |
#1417: | NY Times: "In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal " http://bit.ly/3M4Q35 - Dogs are the animal most entwined with us. |
#1418: | NY Times: "Birth Order: Fun to Debate, but How Important? " http://bit.ly/Odgs4 |
#1419: | Obama to students: "Every single one of you has something you're good at... You have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is." |
#1420: | Carbonation corrodes teeth, more so than sugar. If you bathe your teeth in soda every day--even diet--you will eventually start losing them. |
#1421: | The world is full of crap because crap has a higher profit margin than things you really need. |
#1422: | This past Labor Day weekend, I stayed on my own private island in Maine for $15/day. My report: http://bit.ly/1553ad |
#1423: | My dental hygienist: "When I was single I had plenty of money, but now I'm married, two incomes, but no money. What happened?" |
#1424: | "Two can live cheaply as one" is a fallacy. When you marry, costs tend to increase due to bureaucratic inefficiency. |
#1425: | Anyone can play "Guitar Hero". Almost no one can write decent songs that others want to sing. |
#1426: | "Conspicuous meditation" is when you publically display how spiritually aware you are, by meditating in parks, wearing tie-dyed shirts, etc. |
#1427: | My, my, lo |
#1428: | Did you know that dogs in the desert have neither ticks nor fleas? Yet another reason to "live dry" whenever you can! |
#1429: | Silly me! When I was thirsty, I just drank water. Little did I know that I needed my electrolytes rebalanced! |
#1430: | Paranoia usually assumes that the world cares more about you than it actually does. |
#1431: | A single face-to-face meeting can sometimes accomplish more than 10,000 email messages. |
#1432: | It's getting harder to detect the schizophrenics. They're the ones talking to themselves WITHOUT the Bluetooth in their ear. |
#1433: | It is impossible to tell "good news" from "bad news" until time has tested it, since one can easily transform into the other. |
#1434: | Good luck can easily become a curse and bad luck a blessing. You never can tell until time and free will have acted upon them. |
#1435: | The tendency of every "expert" is to ridiculously overprotect you from whatever threat he is supposed to be an expert about. |
#1436: | AMAZING new exercise machine! Gets you out of bed every morning and makes you walk! Yours for $99/mo for 10+ yrs. CALL NOW! 1-800-GET-A-DOG |
#1437: | Richer or more powerful does not mean invulnerable. They are just as constrained as you are but in different ways. |
#1438: | Rich or famous does not mean more free or less vulnerable. Those people are just as constrained as you are but in different ways. |
#1439: | The greatest tragedy of mankind is that the people who are least capable of raising children are the most likely to have them. |
#1440: | In every big workplace there's some dipshit who's impossible to work with because he rigidly obeys every rule. Nothing gets done! |
#1441: | The willingness to follow others is man's greatest asset and his worst flaw. |
#1442: | Internal inconsistency is the precursor of violence. When someone is at war with themselves, they will soon be at war with others. |
#1443: | The dangerous thing about the night is its anonymity. People can do things without being seen, and that brings out their dark side. |
#1444: | It is good to be generous, but you also don't want to disrupt a local economy so it becomes unsustainable without you. |
#1445: | Real men don't use sunscreen. A simple hat will do. |
#1446: | Las Vegas one of the 10 worst cities to raise children. News: http://bit.ly/ZElkF - In my neighborhood, most kids dropped out of school. |
#1447: | Photo: My "Top Secret Toilet Truck" from the Area 51 era. http://bit.ly/1PpwLq - The cammo is SO last century. |
#1448: | Day after day, month after month, year after year, the news is full of dead people. When is this epidemic going to end? |
#1449: | I bet more people have died driving to the store for hand sanitizer than have died directly from the dreaded swine flu. |
#1450: | If you think you need religion to make sense of your life, so be it. Just don't go around thinking you're God's chosen one. |
#1451: | Advice from the car I'm driving: "WARNING: Death or serious injury can occur." An omnipresent threat but thanks for reminding me. |
#1452: | "AVERTISSEMENT: Il y a risque de mort ou de blessures graves," dit ma voiture. Oui, c'est la vie! |
#1453: | A dark cloud over the economy is that consumers aren't wasting money like they used to. Come on people: Get out there and squander! |
#1454: | Don't try to upsell me, young lady! I'll have just the product I ordered, no fries, no shake, just the burger, thank you! |
#1455: | People with a conflict of interest rarely perceive themselves as having one. Their own needs just happen to coincide with their client's. |
#1456: | Caffeine, like other addictions, is an illusion. It gives you "energy" only by stealing it from someplace else. |
#1457: | Tedious displays of nature: mountains, canyons, waterfalls, coastlines, cliffs, islands. Exciting at first, boring when repeated. |
#1458: | The artist's greatest enemy is his own ego, which prevents him from seeing his work as the outside observer sees it. |
#1459: | In fiction, there can be a magical problem, but there shouldn't be a magical solution. The hero must solve it through his own resources. |
#1460: | In fiction, there can be a magical problem, but there shouldn't be a magical solution. The hero must prevail through his own resources. |
#1461: | Luke Skywalker's "trust the force" is a weak and phony resolution because the hero isn't finding his own strength, only trusting fate. |
#1462: | One of the greatest challenges in life is learning to see yourself as others see you. |
#1463: | "Cornell University" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/cornell-rph |
#1464: | "Corning Museum of Glass" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/corning-glass |
#1465: | "Harvard University" - My photo album (from 2008) http://bit.ly/harvard-yard - Also "Peabody Museum": http://bit.ly/MiQnU |
#1466: | "Ghost Church in Nebraska" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/GtS2a - Abandoned church and schoolhouse in a soybean field. |
#1467: | Wine and cheese are the junk food of the Middle Ages. They've got nothing to offer the body except carbs. |
#1468: | Wine is one of the world's oldest frauds. Each generation convinces the next that it's important, but no one asks "Why?" |
#1469: | The only thing more absurd than spectator sports is spectator sports on the radio. You can't even spectate! |
#1470: | There is no natural "right to health care" because health care is infinitely expensive and there will never be enough of it to go around. |
#1471: | It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Never too early to flog my "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" http://bit.ly/walmartxmas |
#1472: | I believe no one should be persecuted for his sexual preferences, religious beliefs or political affiliations. They're all equally insane! |
#1473: | Safety aside, London is the world's worst city to live in. Crappy weather and unbelievable costs. How/why do people live there? |
#1474: | Book readers see themselves as a cultured bunch, but it can be just another form of addiction. Don't you have something better to do? |
#1475: | Life is hard mainly because you make it hard, overcommitting your future and spending more than you have on things that aren't important. |
#1476: | The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He isn't listening to your prayers and couldn't care less about you. |
#1477: | "People Living in Drains Below Las Vegas". UK Sun: http://bit.ly/vegasdrains |
#1478: | Between the good and the bad is the interesting. |
#1479: | Belief follows necessity. People believe what they need to believe to support their ego and make their circumstances emotionally tolerable. |
#1480: | The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior. This is their personality at work. |
#1481: | The "America Dream" is apparently to trap yourself in a single location with tons of possessions and little opportunity to change. |
#1482: | Never trust any foodstuff with a "y" at the end: "buttery", "chocolatey", etc. It's a product of chemical engineering! |
#1483: | In youth, we gain all our basic assumptions about life. Our adulthood is concerned with unlearning them. |
#1484: | Most adults have so many excuses for not changing that they need a crisis before anything gets done. |
#1485: | Observation of married couples suggests their main activity is home acquisition, maintenance, improvement and decoration. That must be love! |
#1486: | The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior. |
#1487: | All those automatic light switches and toilet flushers are merely training people not to turn off lights or flush toilets. |
#1488: | A cool video on the subject of "beauty" http://bit.ly/105Rom "Dove Evolution" 1:15 |
#1489: | “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” -- Jalal ad-Din Rumi |
#1490: | The primary activities of pair-bonded humans appear to be centered on nest-building and only incidentally the rearing of young. |
#1491: | "Gender at Time of Birth" now appears on government health forms, because "Gender" alone doesn't cover everything. |
#1492: | I could claim that I was a computer battery, but I would be Li-ion. |
#1493: | Cliché of the Day: "You CAN make a difference!" When an ad campaign says this, you can be sure what they want you to do will change little. |
#1494: | The worst fashion monstrosities are strapless gowns and thong bikinis. Go naked if you must; otherwise, more fabric needed! |
#1495: | The convicted murderer died in his sleep before he could be executed, robbing society of the satisfaction of killing him. |
#1496: | Nothing says Christmas like festive holiday products made by Chinese slave labor. |
#1497: | "The camera doesn't lie," they say. Not true! The camera takes things out of context and presents a false purity. |
#1498: | Photography is a fraud that distorts reality to serve the photographer's aims, yet it's the medium people are least skeptical about. |
#1499: | The first bite tastes great! The 2nd is good. The 3rd is okay. By the 4th or 5th it's routine and boring. Same applies to everything! |
#1500: | L'ennui est un défaut de personnalité, pas un état du monde. |