—I SPILLED MY GUTS AT THE RED LIGHT

 

…“No one comes around here to feel saved.” Jay Halsey

 

…Oops, I forgot who I was again.

 

…I think I got a hanger.

 

…Who cares what it looks like as long as it’s the right thing?

 

…That could be a hit. I’m not lying.

 

--You better pull over.

--I’m not pulling over.

--Why not?

--Because he’s going to beat the shit out of me.

 

…There isn’t a bigger buffoon, or narcissist, anywhere:

Donald Trump Is Renaming The Kennedy Center After Himself 

 

…A guy teaches an octopus how to play piano:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/09/octopus-plays-piano-keys-tako/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F461b453%2F693ec2edcbd7b0639b16badd%2F6482a13851bc4a6b178d831b%2F16%2F61%2F693ec2edcbd7b0639b16badd

 

…That was a bad throw, Chief.

 

…So it’s just garbage tomorrow? Are you sure?

 

…Careful...

…(From the Associated Press):

 He said it four times in seven seconds: Somali immigrants in the United States are “garbage.”

It was no mistake. In fact, President Donald Trump’s rhetorical attacks on immigrants have been building since he said Mexico was sending “rapists” across the border during his presidential campaign announcement a decade ago. He’s also echoed rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler and called the 54 nations of Africa “s—-hole countries.” But with one flourish closing a two-hour Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trump amped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric even further and ditched any claim that his administration was only seeking to remove people in the U.S. illegally.

“We don’t want ‘em in our country,” Trump said five times of the nation’s 260,000 people of Somali descent. “Let ’em go back to where they came from and fix it.” The assembled Cabinet members cheered and applauded. Vice President JD Vance could be seen pumping a fist. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sitting to the president’s immediate left, told Trump on-camera, “Well said.”

 

...Here and now, nothing else means nothing.

 

…SHOOTING REPORTED LESS THAN 4.6 MILES FROM YOU HOME

 

…THEFT REPORTED LESS THAN 5.1 MILES FROM YOUR HOME

 

…I’m going to need handlebars tonight.

 

…No one should have to defend what he loves.

 

…We want grief to remain invisible because we can’t do anything about it.

 

…As you can plainly see, that didn’t work out so well.

 

…We know ourselves by how we are known.

 

“How can you hide from what never goes away?” Heraclitus

 

…You can never say what should be until you know more.

 

…Even though my best friend has absolutely no tolerance for bullshit, he has a lot of tolerance for people he knows who are completely full of bullshit. I don’t claim to have that talent, but I give it a nod.  

 

…I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer, but this is real, the truth, and it’s not only despicable, but somewhat curable if we had politicians with guts…So far this year, the United States has experienced more than 400 mass shootings. Seventy at schools alone.     

 

“The narcissism of depression is a hole with very steep sides.” Mark Doty

 

…“If you are blessed with success, use it to lift others. No man should celebrate victories while children have no chances. If you have more than you need, it is not truly yours; it belongs to those who need hope.”  Cooper Kupp

 

…It’s hard not to be greedy, whether you’re rich or poor. Something in us always makes us want more, even when we have enough.

 

…Metabolism drops with age, and I don’t have much metabolism left. 

 

…Love blows up the dam and then you have to decide whether it’s worth repairing.

 

…I like a look of Agony,

    Because I know it’s true.

          --Emily Dickinson

 

 

…Oh, right, here I am.

 

…Sometimes love is pretty unpolite, but it’s still love.

 

…“Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." Haruki Murakami 

 

…This is probably good enough, right? So why doesn’t it feel good enough?

 

…Okay, so here we go again.

 

…I’m not sure what I was doing. I think I was just looking for some good news. 

 

…The thing is you have to keep your eyes open, and that’s always the hardest part.   

 

…“I’ve never believed any of the research on breakfast being the most important meal of the day. Most of that was sponsored by cereal companies.” Marion Nestle, who edited the first Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health

 

…It’s hard to know where genetics fit into all of this.

 

…I’m pretty sure I know where I’m going tomorrow.

 

“You don’t tell a giraffe what to do. You ask.” Linda Rutledge

 

…Everything, and everyone, holds a goodbye for someday.

 

…Some advice I give myself a few times a day: Wear knee pads when you go looking for your ego.

 

…“Here, truth had no place. And anyway, nine times out of ten, it was easier to tell a lie than to watch pity distort someone’s face. I didn’t want to be pitied.” Aria Aber, Good Girl

 

…Stand up straight at the foot of your love, 

 

..You don’t ever want to be that whiny bitch, but, well, sometimes you are.

 

… “Success means nothing if it doesn’t serve others.” Cooper Kupp

 

…More lunacy from your President: 

Trump Stands by Use of the word “Retarded” Criticizing Tim Walz.

 

…And more still:

On Monday, Dec. 15, the president fired off a social media post, saying Reiner's death was "reportedly due to the anger he caused others through... a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME."

 

 

…From The Washington Post:

One in three Latinos who voted for Trump regret their decision, according to a poll.

 

…Only one in three? Are you kidding me?

 

 

…“You will never be let down by anyone more than the one you love. That’s how gravity works.

 

…I mean, somebody’s gotta win, right?

 

…Memories stick to things. You have no control over the, none at all.

 

…“Perhaps it was true—maybe we really did all share the same kind of ordinary sorrow.” Aria Aber, Good Girl

 

…Few things are as perfect as snow. Maybe stars or the ocean, but there aren’t many.

 

…Sometimes it’s difficult when you see people with their clothes on.

 

…“Home is not the place you’re from, Woody. Home is the place you want to be.” West With Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge

 

…Everyone has a few stories they’d rather not tell.

 

…I’m not sure you understand the gravity of the situation. 

 

…I saw a doe and her fawn out by the blueberry bushes yesterday. It was awfully wet, so I’m guessing they were awfully hungry to be out there in that swampland.

 

…When things are falling your way, it’s easy to get overconfident, but when they’re not, well…

 

…If it’s too much for you, you have to say so.

 

…He thought I was hiding something. Because I was.

 

…What else? What else? There’s gotta be something.