“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash

Y’know, a body gets some awful strange tho’ts right before waking up, ‘specially on a lazy Sati’day mornin’.....

Mark Twain said that ‘there are three kinds of liars. Liars, damn liars, and statisticians.’...’course, old Mark stole that from Benjamin Disraeli ‘n I don’t know who Disraeli stole it from but he was a politician so you know he stole it just the same....

Anyways, the latest statistic said that durn near 10% of the population of these good old United States are substance abusers...’n not only substance abusers but the very worst kind of substance abusers because they are the chronic unemployed ‘n the rest of us have to take care of them...by that, I mean that by virtue of our current laws, we have to provide them with food ‘n shelter ‘n medical care along with their substance of choice....

Now, totalitarian states like China don’t have a problem with chronically unemployed substance abusers ‘cause they killed them all off ‘n they’re more’n happy to oblige anybody who’d think it was a good idea t’day, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen here...on that proverbial other hand, I seem to recall a James Bond movie called, “Never say never.”..Of course, being a ‘cranky old fart’ as I was recently tagged by a much younger somewhat Marxist-oriented friend, I learned that never say never thingy long before I ever heard of James Bond but I was just making a point of reference...

Another thing I was wond’ring about on this slow Satiday is why all the younger set who seem to be constantly promoting Marxist ideology all deny being Marxists....t’is a wonderment!

I don’t have any problem calling m’self a conservative...of course, I figger the opposite of conservative is wastrel which is much a much more apt term than those who call themselves Progressive Liberals which don’t really mean much because they ain’t really progressive ‘n durn sure ain’t liberal...

Old men like givin’ good advice when they get too old to set a bad example.