My Hands Never Left My Wrists

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Can You Hear Me Now?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Wikipedia’s stub on Mrs McLaughlin

Resistance Is…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Me vs You

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Serious Is Funny?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov

And I Don’t Think He Means Politically

From Quotes of the Day, today:

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Achieving Happiness

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

Huh! A Lot of Residents Would Ask the Same Thing…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”
- William S. Burroughs

Don’t Know How Often…

…it’s true, but it is interesting…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan

Pretty Scary, Eh?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell


It gets worse: “…In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.”

The Best Place to Hide is Out In the Open…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Dude! Make Up Your Mind!

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries

Bumper Snicker

On the back of a hybrid Mercury Mariner at Ben Lomond Market.

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A Word to the Noisy

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold

What’s Important

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

― J.R.R. Tolkien

Bumper Snicker

In Santa Cruz county, I’m a little surprised this guy/gal and the car are still with us…

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Bumper Snicker

From the license plate frame on a white Miata in the post office parking lot:

You say I’m a bitch


Like it’s a bad thing



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Imagining the Universe

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington

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Thinking (or not…)

From Quotes of the Day, today:

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett

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