Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.
Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
— Mark Twain
(Entirely cromulent Christmas present: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Complete & Authoritative, Vol. 1.)
P.S. — I would have posted this as a short note, but that entire column seems to have disappeared, perhaps as part of the Rapture?
D.A. Ridgely
D.A. Ridgely holds degrees in philosophy and law. (He doesn't really hold them, they just hang there on the wall or peek out as initials after his name. (Actually, that isn't true, either. Those are mere symbols giving evidence of his possession of those degrees. (“Possession,” strictly speaking, being a metaphor of sorts.))) (He is overly fond of parenthetical expressions.)
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I know why I’m still here.
Why are you guys still here?Report
Jaybird– do you mean, here as in “here”, or here as in residing in the Milky Way?Report
Cheeseburgers. (Apparently Hebrews doesn’t apply to Hebrews.)Report
Yes, I took that as a sign of the rapture myself.Report
The Rapture! Of course, that’s why William has left us all behind.Report
I wish we’d all been ready, you know?Report
Hey, the side bar is back. D.A.R. must be one of those insurance agent genies.Report
I think it was in a flood plain and washed out, but Mr. Kain fortunately has federal flood insurance and could rebuild.Report
Federal flood insurance? Oh the statist horror!Report
Supporting government largess is immoral; refusing to take it is idiotic.Report
Ha! I knew it! DAR is the medium channeling Mark Twain.
Happy Holidays, Mr. Ridgely!Report
DAR, please, please, please, PLEASE post your abortion essay again—it’s brilliant and needs to be read by all. The subject seems to be gradually surfacing again, with this Civil War debate raging on, and I’m sure all of the folks on this new site, LoOG would enjoy reading it. Many thanks!Report