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April 24th, 2008

Knowing what’s nice.

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  4. Sometimes noticing is what makes it good.
    I mean, c’mon, we’re all lottery winners here. We get to be alive and most stuff doesn’t.

  8. Mo’s right. A Muslim sitting side by side with a Jew, just sitting quietly in the evening hours, looking at the full moon in the sky without a word of violence toward each other due to religious beliefs. It’s a shame that our real world will never be this kind to the rest of us.

    But honestly, I’m with tie. I wanna see Mo split the moon.

  9. I’d like to see him try to split the moon, but only because I know he’d fail.

    Should he succeed, well, each hemisphere would collapse into a new sphere and an awful lot of rock would go flying. We’d see first hand the creation of a ring system and also be treated to some very exciting meteorite events. Very exciting. Their effect on the atmosphere would probably put all fears of global warming out of mind.

    Funny how the last time he did it, no-one noticed all the spectacular side effects.

    Their ancient lies are so transparent in the light of science. It occurs to me that not only is it better to keep silent and only be thought a fool, writing it down so it can be read millennia later, is even worse than just opening one’s mouth.

    Now we have Ben Stein, who even provides recordings of himself telling lies. Who knows how far into the future the evidence of his lies will persist?

  10. Been reading this since start. Nice one!
    BTW Can you do Elishas bears ina comic please? I want to see Elisha!

  12. Thanks for the link, author. Your work is always funny, but as a humanist myself, that was a genuinely pleasant read.

  13. Re: the Vonnegut link. R.I.P.

    I might agree to go to heaven now that Kurt Vonnegut is there. A most cheerful nihilist, and how he did encourage us in so many dark hours!

    “He was making the flashlight dance over all the dead people stacked outside. He put his hand on my head . . . ‘Son,’ my father said to me, ‘someday this will all be yours.'”

    If that isn’t nice . . . . Don’t worry – Poor Richard gives highest priority to nice. It’s a beautiful day in Michigan, and the water is up.

  15. I like Cock and Bull story once in a while.
    Now for something completely indifferent.

  18. Among the many things the great man wrote, here is the one which i consider to be the most important and life changing:

    Here is my picture of an asshole:

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