by Ai Friendly | Jan 24, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
Here in America, we could paraphrase J.F.K’s words, as follows: We prefer the Rule of Law in the age of self-determination to unfettered lawlessness. America began in the historic fight for Self-determination known as the Revolutionary War. The desire to have our own...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 16, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
My name is John Anon, short for John Anonymous, and I am the resurrected spirit of the British Inspiration for the Founding Fathers, John Locke. I have come back from the grave to put one or two things right that my cousin Q seems to have gotten wrong! It was recently...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 10, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
A lot of otherwise intelligent people have been heard calling for two things in recent years, electing non-politicals and term limits. It seems we have little faith in the “politicians” we elect. Either we want the politicians we choose to come from a non-political...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 2, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
For this essay, I invoke the muses of the recently deceased Desmond Tutu and of Nelson Mandela, who ushered in a period of reconciliation and healing in South Africa following apartheid. Reconciliation and healing works. Animosity and divisiveness do not. Proposed:...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 26, 2021 | Witty Repartee on any topic
Even if you are not a fan or say you hate symphonies, you should express appreciation for Ode to Joy. Beethoven was a prodigy as a boy, but he also wrote great music, like the 4th. and last movement of his 9th. Symphony, late in life when all but completely deaf. He...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 19, 2021 | Witty Repartee on any topic
How do you like my Christmas card this year? You see those beautiful snowy woods behind me? Doesn’t it remind you of that poem by Robert Frost? “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep….” Remember that one? You know, Christmas is less than a week away! Ho! Ho! Ho! As my...
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