discardia

No man should be elected on the principals of fear.
Any man proclaiming doom, has doomed themselves to failure.

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Sometimes the only difference between breakfast and dessert is which direction the sun is headed.
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As I looked into the well lit food case at Starbucks… I pondered how the hell dessert became breakfast.

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As I get older and, hopefully, more mature, there are a few things that are becoming more and more evident.
One, people, as a group, rarely have the ability to get things done. Put 30 people in the room and very few people will be able to cogitate the big picture, fewer people […]

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I went to the dentist yesterday.
Sitting in the torture chair, my gums bleeding from the dental rape cleverly labeled as “cleaning”, I was going to ask my dentist for a dental tourniquet.
But the word tourniquet was not in my vocabulary.
I had some vague memory of the word, it was on the end of my […]

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As a party in many human relationships (my marriage, my family, my coworkers and my friends), it is sometimes a bit unsettling to compare it to the many online relationships that I have.
It sounds dirty, but it really is innocuous. I am an administrator for a gaming community online… the community is focused primarily […]

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Every week my loyal and long lasting blackberry pearl appears to have a new quirk.
One week the vibration stops working, instead, just issuing a high pitch squeal.
The next week, the phone refuses to ring, although the profile has not changed.
Most of the time a battery reseat fixes the issue. I need a […]

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I pity you.
Pity usually reserved for three legged dogs and ugly babies.
You sir, are swimming through that pool of sad disdain.

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At any commercial break, if the percentage of political campaign commercials is 50% or above of the total commercials shown in that break, take a shot.
If at any commercial break, someone says that they approved that message and the consensus is that they shouldn’t have approved such a stupid mindless ad, take a shot.
If during […]

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And the apple turns to the pear and replies, “How can I? You’re bananas!”

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An apple sits with a pear on the couch watching TV.
The apple asks “How was your day?”
The pear replies “Just peachy.”
The apple scratches its head and replies “Peachy?”
The pear responds “Why don’t you understand me?”
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That, my friends, is a marriage.
Read into it what you will.

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