even still more facebook posts collected

I'm purely baffled when people demonize the government - government is an expression of the people and their good faith toward each other. Government is also a protection against the bad faith of people too often expressed in envy, greed and sloth. Those who say that they want a government small enough to drown in a tub, are covertly expressing their animus toward people and society under cover of a straw man argument.

wonders how many baseball players named Coffee have existed: "Coffee grounds out to pitcher" "Coffee creamed by bean ball" that sort of thing.

thinks of Roy Blount's joke about two southerners discussing churches: one says "Do you believe in infant baptism" and the other reponds "Believe in it? Hell! I seen it done."

thinks of ways to improve Moby Dick: introduce the character "Bartelby, the harpooner", change titie to Moby Dickinson: the Diving Belle of Amherst.

thinks that there's not enough time, that every moment of time is too precious to spend being reactive, nurturing resentments, ranting ad nauseum. Every day in the hospital I see people in distress, nearing their limit, grieving - and it seems, that there is no time to waste in any endeavor but love, in any position but in hearing and speaking to our mutual wounds.

observes that the word "maverick" will soon be given over to an entirely ironic connotation."That horse I rode at the fair was quite a maverick."

ponders that the original Maverick was an unbranded horse, but was still owned, albeit the more insidious for concealing its true condition.

ponders names for a sports franchise in Yemen: yemini crickets.