Truth............................

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Fifty years ago...............................

Leapy Lee..................................................................Little Arrows

 

And it couldn't happen to a nicer group of people...

And I truly get the frustration of being a business cycle economist in the midst of what will almost certainly be a record-breaking expansion. Imagine a business cycle economist going year after year without a recession to ride. It’s like Tinkerbell without her wings.

-as lifted out of this Calculated Risk post

Sorry, not sorry......................

Sorry, not sorry. A neologism which I hear young people use frequently, and now people my age are adopting.  It's a great phrase.  People want you to be sorry for something you did, you feel you're in the right.  Sorry, not sorry.

 "Safe Spaces" aren't about knowledge.  They are about being thin-skinned and unwilling to think.  

... life means we're free to be offended.  We're not free from being offended.  We're free to be heard.  We're not free to force people to listen.  If my tone offends you, if it causes you to discount what I have to say, if it causes you any kind of problem, well, it's your right to feel that way.  Good luck with that.

-three wee excerpts culled from this Maggie's Farm essay.   Read the whole thing.

Also true.........................

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

- Robert Brault

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On graciousness.........................

     The key to painless growth is humility, which amounts to merely dropping pridefulness and pretense and accepting fallibility as a normal human characteristic of self and others.  Lower mind sees relationships as competitive; higher mind sees them as cooperative.  Lower mind gets involved with others; higher mind becomes aligned with others.  The simple words "I'm sorry" put out most fires painlessly.  To win in life means to give up the obsession of "who's at fault."  Graciousness is far more powerful than belligerence.

-David Hawkins

On apologizing like you are really sorry.......

"Note:  this one requires that you understand, accept, and are actually sorry for what you did … not just that you were caught doing it."

-John E. Smith, as excerpted from his "No Such Thing" post

Just in case...........................

..............................you needed reminding:

Thanks Kurt

Comprehensive.......................

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For kids of all ages....................

Sad, but true........................................

An unpleasant bump................................

I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.

You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.

So sorry...........................

....................................Apologizing for a lack of sensitivity.

Apologizing to all my facebook friends.....

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Feeling like Wally.................................

Scott Adams learned lots of new things in the past year.  Yeow.   I'm apologizing in advance for being such a slackard.

A silver lining in every cloud................

With apologies to all my lobbyist friends.................

The political gridlock that has gripped Washington over the past few years may have one small upside: For the third year in a row, the lobbying industry profits are down. Most struggling companies are losing business due to the lingering effects of the recession, but with lobbyists the problem appears to stem from the inability of Congress to get anything done...

Read the full WRM blog post here.

But we meant well......................

"It is exercises like this that give humanitarians and idealists such a lousy reputation in the field of international affairs. Good intentions unmoored from judgment and sobriety are lethal weapons that have wrecked and will wreck the lives and happiness of millions."
-excerpted from Via Meadia's essay on the "Libyan Afterparty"

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Making friends and influencing people................

Road Rage Karma................................

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Could (should) have used this service last night......

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Hate it when that happens.................Green Santa