Playing the Deaf Card
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
~ Max Ehrmann, from the poem “Desiderata” (1927)
It was an eerie Sunday morning a month or so ago. I awoke, went into the bathroom, turned on the water and even though I could see it running I could not hear it. I had awakened stone deaf!
I’ve lost hearing in one ear before and I have hearing aids to compensate for the loss of hearing I have had over the years, but …
This Weeks Best Jokes – 06-10-2013
4 Husbands
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation.
“He’s a funeral director,” she answered.
“Interesting,” the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn’t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. after a short time, a …
Buy Gold and Guns?
I read an article in the American Thinker the other day that actually threw me for a loop because it was written by a college professor who was espousing a “pepper” approach to life. Most college professors I know are fairly liberal in their approach to national economics. Academia has generally been a bastion for progressive thinkers who seem to think there is no end to spending other people’s money to achieve utopian goals.
Neil Snyder, who is Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, wrote, “ … at …
Can We Outlive Our Medicare?
You’ll rarely find me endorsing a politician but I have run across one who is not afraid to shoot from the hip when it comes to issues concerning senior citizens.
Congressman Rich Nugent of Florida’s 11th District is a sophomore member of the House of Representatives who I enjoyed having represent me for his freshman term simply because he took to Washington with him some down-to-earth staff members whose main goal is to keep him in touch with his constituents.
Sadly I lost Nugent to redistricting last year but his staff …