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Texas Ranger style
The FBI announced today they have hired Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan to train their “field” (torture) agents to protect themselves against “knife” (i.e, banana) attacks using simple martial arts techniques.
Bureaucracy, Foolery, Inc.?
In buffoonery news, a national agency admitted it was a banana, not a knife, which the victim launched at an agent.
The agent is at hospital, recovering from wounds directly attributable to slipping on a banana peel, and is expected to recover.
The banana fruit, unfortunately, died on the scene.
Following in their commander-in-chief’s footsteps, no one will take responsibility for murdering the banana thrower.
Studious
I always wondered why I performed better on tests in classrooms where I had not only listened to lectures but also completed my homework and studied for the next quiz.
Did I simply use visual clues/cues throughout the classroom as memory placeholders that aided my critical thinking?
I choose to ask myself…
…am I, are we all, a type of bigoted, racist Archie Bunker?
Does our short-sightedness reflect something else?
Thus, watching a film, The Human Stain, to discover if so and why.
Play misty for me, mister
An early misty Saturday morning in the north Georgia mountains, hearing birds talk in the twilight of predawn under the awning, the smell of wet pine decking holding feet firm.
Cork board
The ting of water drops splattering at the bottom of a downspout.
The faint glow of a firefly gliding under a forest canopy.
The chirp of a bird at night.
A bat?
No more firefly?
The points of light on distant peaks — mobile phone towers, street lamps, headlights pointing this way and that.
Standing in the doorway of a mountain cabin, a screen door barring mosquitoes and moths, stretching sore muscles tightened by hours of holding and turning a steering wheel, by moments in public view of others, anticipating their reluctant smiles, looking for laughter to ease the tension of one’s daily high-wire act…
At 3:35 in the morning, alone in one’s thoughts, is this happiness, time spent rewriting personal history, rewiring social connections at the neuronal level on an electronic slate?
How often does autocorrect redirect one’s thoughts?
If I’m willing to feel the pain of others in my easy life, so can you, when the time is right, when we get too comfortable to see that short-sighted happiness creates historical misery.
I am a caged animal at times, enraged, barred by artifices like social/moral boundaries that make no sense to me yet I, in my inadequacy, maintain for the sake of appearances.
Walking on hot coals for no reason, tiptoeing on eggshells spread across thin ice, wearing a life preserver shaped like a large yellow rubber duck.
This is my universe and I am learning to deal with it, a bull in a china shop one moment, a whisper of wind passing through seven billion social/moral/ethical animals the next.
We truly do not see our fragile place in the universe, trapped as we are by our hypnotic illusions, comfortably deluded.
Will we, as a small percentage of the mass of one planet, wake up in our sleep before we die?
When I was a kid…
When I was a kid, my parents’ house had those sliding wooden doors that recessed into doorframes.
You had to manually slide the door out by hand, though.
Of course, as an adult, my wife and I installed the “Star Trek” style doors in our house.
Whenever I go to friends’ houses, it’s so strange to wave my hand in the air or walk up to a door and it not open/close automatically.
I blame the “Star Trek” franchise for spoiling me and hating my technologically-challenged friends!
Ode to Dick Trickle — you’ll always be 1st in our hearts and last on the track but that’s okay
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