“It is what it is!”

One of those overworked phrases that doesn’t actually mean anything at all ‘n most often used as if it were an explanation for ev’rything et al... ‘n et al is one of those latin thingies that you pick up along the way ‘n never, ever get a chance to use in context....
His’try is that really, really boring subject that almost ev’ryone sleeps thru during their school daze...it’s usually a dry recitation of dates ‘n places that almost no one is able to relate to nor long remember....I mean, who among us gives a durn about the Battle of Hastings or, for that matter, what the heck it was anyway....thing is tho’ that the aphorism (a pithy observation as, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”) those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it is too true...as humanity as a whole have been doing for generations....
If you look closely at heroes, you’ll find warts...in every case...from Michael Vick ‘n Mickey Mantle to good old Bret Whatsisname....from Obama ‘n Bush to Kennedy ‘n Roosevelt... either one of the Roosevelts, for I was brought up to believe in the near sainthood of both Franklin ‘n Theodore....if we were to go back in history, we’d find that both Lincoln ‘n Washington had warts as well...just like all the rest of us, we all have our dark moments, our lapses, if you will....sometimes a brave man gets scared of the dark ‘n runs away...sometimes an honest man lies... Gibbs rule #51 is that sometimes you’re wrong....
Quoting an old television show called Barney Miller, Barney explains that the great blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, has a throat circumference of about eight inches....’n that’s the way it is ‘n there ain’t anything anybody can do about it...
I’ve been quoting that teevee show for a number of years now ‘n I ain’t got the slightest idea if there’s any truth to it or not...it’s sort’a like some of the stories that I tell....a friend of mine, after I had told him a story of my once upon a time in Kentucky, asked me if my story was true or if I had made it all up....I told him that far’s I knew, it was Gospel Truth, more or less....as any good teller of tales will attest, one should never let the facts get in the way of a good story....
That being said, there’s no doubt that humans are flawed ‘n that’s the way it is ‘n there ain’t anything anybody can do about it.



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