Not all Americans own firearms. In fact, I'll bet not even a majority do. Most people rely on the "fingers crossed" method. If you think about it, it's better for people who won't get trained in the use of firearms to not have them.

In the novel "Shogun," The Samurai who became Shogun sentenced his rival to die of old age. That rival was buried up to his neck, there was a bamboo saw nearby, and passersby were allowed to take a saw at his neck. He died eventually, a very old man indeed.

A sign of things to come.

My house had an encyclopedia. There was certainly a photo of a racoon in it.
Funny hat though? Forget about it.

Nobody else likes basketball (Massachusetts 1891) or volleyball (Massachusetts 1895)?

One example is how the Irish-British tension in Northern Ireland usually is described as "Catholic-Protestant" conflict. But, it's really between the Irish who believe the British are interlopers seizing Irish land, and British who believe they colonized land that was obtained far in the past and it's no longer Irish. The Irish and British are culturally Catholic and Protestant. But, the struggle gets painted as religious.

If you read quotes from Hitler, he was decidedly anti-Christian, despite people assigning some religious connotation to him because his mom took him to church as a child. Stalin and Pol Pot were some more atheists who didn't do much for atheists' reputation as peace-loving.

It's too bad that some people can't stop at "Appreciate the mysteries and wonders of our group," and have to continue on to "Your group is garbage."

Who is Viola? Or is it referencing the musical instrument?

"...and Frosted Flakes residuals."

They're making rules for *others*, not themselves. You can't expect them to thrive and make good decisions while following the diet they recommend to the population, and force onto school districts (well, just if they want to receive the federal money that gets taken from the taxpayers in that school district).

My daughter was so excited to see "Brave" at age 16 that she sewed a Merida costume.

Then again, if you're going to use a 20-year cave hermit as your guide, you'll be making a lot of other decisions differently as well.

I lost 45 pounds in 2020, and had a lot of clothes that fit again so I didn't need to buy anything new.

It's a surprise tool that will help us later.

The way it was understood in my corporate career: The one crab who gets to the edge and begins pulling himself up gets pulled back down by the others.

Now let's get us some chowdah!

Yeah right
Of course
Hey hey, good bye

Pass the cornbread.

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Duel? No! From Star Trek we know that identical matter and anti-matter must not meet.

You really do need a helmet when you're eight feet up there.