tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post5247586168750652789..comments2024-03-28T21:07:00.650-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Let it goNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-19982968272027940952016-07-17T21:07:12.639-05:002016-07-17T21:07:12.639-05:00Johnson's the best.Johnson's the best.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16920448870762827162016-07-17T14:22:18.311-05:002016-07-17T14:22:18.311-05:00Dr. Johnson had some good advice to those who look...Dr. Johnson had some good advice to those who look to authority, secular or divine, to deal with their daily dilemmas.<br /><br /> "How small, of all that human hearts endure,<br /> That part which laws, or Kings can cure.<br /> Still to ourselves, in every place consign'd<br /> Our own felicity we make or find."<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69726221514558719772016-07-17T10:58:17.520-05:002016-07-17T10:58:17.520-05:00That remenids me of a really long ago Royko column...That remenids me of a really long ago Royko column.<br />A Park District employee called him about a woman complaining that there wasn't any ice in the park's ice rink. The PD employee told her that it was far too warm for ice & she'd have to wait until it was colder.<br />Her response: "I knew you guys would have an excuse!"Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86815677161145924152016-07-17T10:57:45.689-05:002016-07-17T10:57:45.689-05:00Neil, wise and kind advice.
Neil, wise and kind advice. <br />Christmashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788893936653416319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-24243553548864292142016-07-17T10:12:04.777-05:002016-07-17T10:12:04.777-05:00You were much, much more patient than I would have...You were much, much more patient than I would have been.<br /><br />Years ago, some woman called me at the community newspaper where I worked, fuming about how her elderly mother was the victim of "an engineering malfunction" that made her car accelerate suddenly and crash into the rear of a car ahead of her.<br /><br />I said, "Ma'am, here's what you do. Get your mother a sheet of paper..."<br /><br />"Yes?"<br /><br />"...and have her write out a hundred times, 'The brake is on the left, the gas is on the right.' "<br /><br />She called me a short, unpleasant name and slammed down the phone.<br /><br />Bitter Scribe Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857840826894504436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67937226909655320402016-07-17T09:05:19.247-05:002016-07-17T09:05:19.247-05:00Wise words.Wise words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-58177095673061661212016-07-17T06:04:47.615-05:002016-07-17T06:04:47.615-05:00Good advice. Especially with so many really bad th...Good advice. Especially with so many really bad things going on around us, we don't need to hold onto even more grievances.LBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07023427375867309963noreply@blogger.com