2014: The Takeaway

 
 Here is what I learned in 2014:

Now that the Supreme Court has declared corporations are people, you are not paranoid to think people are out to get you. You are realistic.

Those who have the status will always defend the status quo.

Gluten is not the enemy. Monsanto’s Roundup is: most of the wheat in the United States is saturated with Roundup two weeks before harvesting to make it easier for the machines to do that job. Its main chemical glyphosate is a lethal toxin that causes all the symptoms people attribute to gluten.

Suffering is usually great expectations adjusted for inflation.

When you get it backwards, live becomes evil.

When i gets more rounded and richer, to live becomes to love.

Jerry Seinfeld has made gazillions simply by having the chutzpah to say out loud in polite company what everybody is actually thinking.

The loss of Stephen Colbert’s on-air character is devastating because he was living proof that we have become such a controlled medieval society, only a jester can speak truth to power and get away with it.

It is absolutely amazing how people don't come through and things go wrong merely because the universe is doing its damnedest to make things right for you.You just have to wait a minute to see that.

You can be too rich and too thin.

People who keep looking over their shoulder at the past can't see where they're heading and stumble.

You can relive the happier moments of your childhood for free now that Mary Martin’s Peter Pan, the Wizard of Oz, Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte’s Web, Peter and the Wolf, and so much more is somewhere on the Internet just waiting for you to Google it. And they are far superior to everything in the movie theaters right now.

You will never be a fat head if you learn to bite your tongue.

S/he who does not expect cannot be disappointed.

Boredom is just your resistance to whatever is happening at that moment.

Wisdom comes with age but so does short-term memory loss because Mother Nature has figured out young people don’t want to learn from your experience.

Women live longer and remain stronger than men because Mother Nature realized infants and toddlers and their moms need grandmothers’ help to get by.

Being “professional” simply means not being able to tell a jerk he is one.

All the news that’s fit to print is no longer reliably in The New York Times.

A major cause of suffering the Buddha forgot to mention is that men were created before product liability, tort laws and mandatory defect recalls.

People do not change. What they are just becomes thicker and more impenetrable, like the ingredients in a sauce you are reducing.

Dwight Eisenhower was dead right about the insidious military industrial complex. The Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars were only about Lockheed, Raytheon and Halliburton selling product.

Fatuous is the word that best describes today's people, politics, products, entertainment and what passes for news.

Theory of Relativity: In Maine in December 57º is a heat wave. In San Francisco it’s a cold snap.

Life is best when the fork is with you.

~Sandy Garson "Wordsmithing to attest how the Dharma saved me from myself!"
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