by Ai Friendly | Feb 6, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
George Carlin (deceased) is in my all-time top three of funny people, if not number one. For me the other two are Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor (before he burned his face off). Chris Rock is very funny, and there are others, men and women, who thankfully make me...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 30, 2022 | Witty Repartee on any topic
The oft repeated call by conservatives for small government is puzzling. What exactly does that mean? Do they want our government to be run by a single bureaucrat perhaps working out of a broom closet in Fairbanks, Alaska? That would be small, and as appealing as that...
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:...
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