Apparently many people find me amusing. It is not my intention to be amusing, but in dealing with the opposite sex, dignity, pride, boredom, and humility, I have found that I am not perfect. This book includes short vignettes that others might identify with and thus help them look at their life.

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a ..".species of oppression... with] which democratic nations are menaced...unlike anything which ever before existed in the world..." It was a despotism that ..".would be more extensive and...would degrade men without tormenting them." It would be a force that ..".compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, til each...is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid...animals, of which the government is the shepherd." Tocqueville was predicting socialism in America, a new form of oppression that did not exist in his time. He...

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a ..".species of oppression... with] which democratic nations are menaced...unlike anything which ever before existed in the world..." It was a despotism that ..".would be more extensive and...would degrade men without tormenting them." It would be a force that ..".compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each...is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid...animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

Tocqueville was predicting socialism in America, a new form of oppression that did not exist in his time. He...

God is pissed. In the beginning, God created heaven, earth, and all the animals. They were part of a grand and perfect design. It worked well, and God was pleased. Then one of the animals, man, started altering the design, irritating God.

God gave man, unlike the other animals, a little cleverness, which has caused him to jump the tracks. Using this cleverness, man has conceived, created, and implemented incredible unnatural and convoluted ideas, constructs, and systems. These entities are upsetting God's patterns of nature. Man is now doing things God never intended. This has not only...

This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: .Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic. .Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and memento mori. .Root words including ruth (for ruthless). .Enlightening word comparisons like putative, purported and ostensible. .Proper words such as...