Get Vaccinated AND Wear A Mask

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2022	Get Up
2021	Get Vaccinated AND Wear A Mask
	Since She Left (Donna)
2020	Didn’t I Just Post Yesterday?
2019	A Long Slog
2018	There Is No God But God
	To The Uncommitted Reader
2017	Not Yet That Well-Organized
2016	Probably Whatever Was Sought Yesterday
2015	What We Choose To Divide Us
2014	Peace With Honor
2013	Dangerous Systems
2012	Useful Science
2011	Say It, But Please Don’t Make Me Listen

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Give And Gain

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
—    James Elliot
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On This Day In:
2022	Closer And Closer Possibilities
2021	Fighting New Guitar Fever
	Bad Trades In The Tunnel (Age)
2020	Give And Gain
	Can We Talk For A Second (Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time)
	Almost Ready To Take A Breath
2019	Transfiguration
2018	2018 Mid-Terms
	Praying For A Blue Tsunami Election (All I Need Is A Miracle)
2017	Islam Is Not The Enemy
2016	A Checkered Past, A Checkered Future
2015	Preferences
2014	Have You Taken The Pledge?
2013	Nurture Tolerance
2012	Election Day – Please Hear What I’m Not Saying
2011	Mostly Strange, Always Blue
	What Is It You Want?
2010	MSNBC, Bring Back Keith !!!
	Value..
	Worse Still…
	Afraid So…
	Making It
	Don’t Jump Small
	Time
	Push!!
	I’m Still Here… (A Message To Keith Olbermann)
	Choose
	Not Yet…
	Mean Too
	Still Building (and Planning)
	Hangin’ High
	Always…

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Is #45 Warning Alabama Again?

Wise men talk because they have something to say;  fools talk because they have to say something.
—    Benjamin Franklin
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On This Day In:
2022	When The Truth Hurts
	MAGAs Are The Real RINOs
2021	Access Is Good
	The Sun Is Shining (Since I Lost My Baby)
	No Recall
2020	Give Me A Minute To Think About That…
	November 3rd Is Coming! (Wake Up Everybody)
	An Eye For An Eye
2019	Is #45 Warning Alabama Again?
	Day 11: 49ers Win
2018	Worry (x2)
2017	Still Working
	Gold In The Morning Sun (I’m Just A Country Boy)
2016	Power Inside
2015	Sometimes I Feel Small
2014	It Slipped Away
2013	Corollary
2012	Working Retired
2011	The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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Chained To #45

It is hard to free fools from chains they revere.
—    Voltaire
[What every happened to the “good old days” when Republicans could be intelligent AND conservative;  who you could respect even if you disagreed with their policies?   I guess those folks have either died or left the GOP.   —   kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	Prior Reflection (I Hope)
2022	Be Someone For Somebody
2021	Genius (And Other Details)
	I Don’t Know Why (I’m In A Hurry)
	Going Into The Deep End
2020	Repercussions For Health
2019	Chained To #45
2018	Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves
2017	Too Many
2016	Not Yet, Anyway
2015	On Pornography
2014	Nudge, Nudge
2013	The Journey Will Be Joy
2012	Hopeful Flights
2011	Irrationally Predictable
	Lawful Restraint

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Speaking Of #45

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
—    Benjamin Franklin
[Hmmm…  Since I criticize both his policies and the man himself, (to no practical effect,) does this make me a bigger fool than #DonTheCon?  Just wondering…     —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022	Be Glorious
2021	Our Common Humanity
	A History Story (American Pie)
2020	At The Very Least Smile More
	Your Touch (Unchained Melody)
2019	Still Working On Both
2018	Two Jordans To Heaven
	Speaking Of #45
2017	All Greek To Me
2016	Judgment
2015	I Love Bacon, Too
2014	The Wee Bit
2013	Reading Rules
2012	Cadet Prayer
2011	Easy To Tell
2010	A NEW Lion In The Senate (Channeling Mr. Smith)
	Inception Redux
	A Quick Hit Of Stats

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Just Kidding

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
—    Charles Simmons
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On This Day In:
2023	After You, My Dear
2022	I’ve Lost My Share
2021	You Decide
	A Dream And The Wind (Sailing)
2020	Making Me
2019	Inside Your Head
2018	Lingering Curiosity
2017	Just Kidding
2016	The Danger Of Walls
2015	Protection
2014	Let It Go
2013	Don’t Know And Not Telling
2012	A Challenge For Progress
2011	Dependent Difficulty

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Watched The Inauguration

I have great faith in fools;  self-confidence my friends call it.
—    Edgar Allan Poe
[Please God, Let me be wrong…     —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	The Dissent We Witness
2022	End The Filibuster
2021	Be Creative, Question Assumptions
	By No Means (King Of The Road)
2020	I’ll Eat To That (Gemütlichkeit)
	To The Front
2019	#ContinueToResist
	Except Willful Ignorance And Prideful Stupidity
2018	More Executive Time For #DumbDonald
2017	Watched The Inauguration
	Two Geniuses
2016	Come Dance And Laugh With Me
2015	Looks Good To Me
2014	Desire For The Sea
2013	The Fierce Urgency Of NOW
	Happy Inauguration Day!
2012	One Path
	Sorrow And Joy
	The Seven Year View
2011	Emergent Practicality

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Reflections

Books are like mirrors:  if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
―     J. K. Rowling
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On This Day In:
2023	Memories Of The Road Once Taken…
	Except When More Than A Little Is Required
2022	Full Of It
2021	I’m Still Learning To Play
	What Are You Looking For? (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get)
2020	All You Can
2019	No Wall And Not One Dollar
	‘Cause It Makes Me Scratch (Happier)
2018	Mirror, Mirror
2017	Keep On Keeping On
2016	Reflections
2015	Is It Time Yet?
2014	Ask Any Follower
2013	Cornered Or Surrounded?
2012	Escape
2011	Achievement
	Not Unreasonable Enough

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Eloquence, n.

The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color it appears to be.  It includes the gift of making any other color appear white.
––    Ambrose Bierce
From:   “The Devil’s Dictionary“
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On This Day In:
2023	Laughing At #45:DonTheClown
2022	Sowing The Future
2021	Unmistakable Progress
	Dom-De-Doo-Be Dom (Come And Go With Me)
	Reviewing Austen
2020	A Better Synthesis
2019	It’s Only Funny If You’re Old Enough To Know What “Film” Was
2018	Bourne Wicked Blonde
	First Things First
2017	This Explains A Lot
2016	Me Too
2015	A Proper Price
2014	Well Hard
2013	Because I Can
	Eloquence, n.
2012	Why Bother?
2011	Peculiar Notions

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Learning Bitter

To suffer and learn a lesson, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way.
—    Traditional Chinese Proverb
Found in:  “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly
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On This Day In:
2023	Wide And Yawning
2022	Where One Goes
2021	A Direct Relationship
	Another Night Train South (Can’t You See)
2020	One Person’s Roses…
2019	In The Long-Run
2018	#NeverAgain
	Doss II
	Doesn’t / Does
2017	Talent Hates To Move
2016	Looking To November
2015	It Isn’t The End
	Prospero’s Precepts
2014	Friends
2013	Learning Bitter
2012	Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
	May I Have More Happiness, Please?
2011	There Is No God, But God
2010	Another Running Book…

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Wisdom’s Folly

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
—    Dr. Samuel Johnson
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On This Day In:
2023	Musical Notes
	It Was A Very Good Year
2022	A Murmuring Note
2021	Satisfied If Not Fulfilled
	You Don’t Know (Whatcha Gonna Do)
	Urban Ballroom
2020	R.I.P. Kobe
2019	Looks A Lot Like #45
2018	Trying To Stay Young
2017	Seems Reasonable To Me
2016	We Can Get Through This Together (In Time)
2015	How Long Is A Piece Of String?
2014	Heathen, n.
2013	Wisdom’s Folly
2012	When The Student Is Ready
	Disconnected Leadership
2011	The Complex Richness Of Life

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Are You Really Good?

A really good actor has got to be capable of making an enormous fool out of himself.  Otherwise, no original work gets done.
—    Sydney Pollack
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On This Day In:
2023	We “Market” Feelings And Image Not Products Or Services
2022	Until Something Better Comes Along
2021	Facing The Headwinds
	Still Thankful, Still Don’t Read Well (Signs)
2020	Write For Yourself
2019	I’m Actively Irresponsible
2018	I Will Love You… Forever
2017	Pebbles In Your Shoe?
2016	Resolute Will
2015	Absorbed And Civilized
2014	Relax And Lead
2013	Location, Location, Location
2012	Are You Really Good?
2011	Relatively Objective, Anyway

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