Wisdom
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Here are some reasons, young' 'uns, why you should steer clear of tattoos. a) because tattoos are permanent and because taste, your taste, is impermanent and will inevitably change. There's a poster on the wall of your bedroom that you love. Five years later, you're indifferent to it, and ten years later, you've trashed it.…
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Many a restaurant in New Orleans; and many visited by us during our latest stay. Two divergent experiences. Shaya, and Venezia. Shaya: Slick, elegant, ultra-modern, carefully designed. Waitpersons stylishly costumed and coiffed. Well-trained. Reservations mandatory. Customers: jacketed and tied, or on high heels. Price: whole wallet. The place to go if you're looking for wood…
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Donald Trump has taken credit for the rise in the stock market. "The stock market hit yet another record high yesterday. There is great confidence in the moves that my Administration is making.” If he is responsible for the rise, then surely he is also responsible for the fall. It can be no accident, and can…
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It wasn't until I reached college that I discovered poetry. My comic-book, super-hero and baseball-infused brain was until then, poetry-wise, an almost complete tabula rasa; I say "almost" because at eight or nine eight years old I had already memorized two great classics of American literature: "Casey at the Bat" and also the poem by…
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Inasmuch "on horror's head horrors accumulate" every single Trump day, I wonder why an atrocity out of the mouth of Senator Charles Grassley (of once progressive Iowa) pisses me off to the top of my bent. Over the top, actually, even though he's probably no worse than the others. In an aha!! moment with the…
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"Enough is as good as a feast" has become my very favorite proverb. It's a warning against crass consumerism, against materialism, against the excesses of capitalist acquisitiveness. Cold water in a jelly glass, it asserts, is as good as your $500 wine in crystal. As they used to gloss the proverb, no "avaricious scraping…
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Once Leonardo defeated the old king and began to rule the pride, he evolved into a more modern lion — more sensitive, more sharing, and more mindful. While he did not trim his mane or become less manly, he transitioned to a new kind of male. First he decided no longer to bite the necks…