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My wife still looks pretty much the same, but back then I had hair, was skinny, and apparently had appalling taste in clothes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friends Okay, so someone I sold a book to, and personally signed, sold that book at a used book store and IT WAS WORTH LESS BECAUSE I SIGNED IT Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daylight Savings So, for about four months there was a copy of “Little Women” on the dashboard of my pickup and I lived in constant fear that I would be killed in a traffic accident and the entire eulogy at my funeral would be, “When Brent died, a copy of “Little Women” was found in his pickup with him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Funeral ....as I walked by a woman on her cell phone, I heard her say, Well, take him by the nape of the neck and shake him a couple times for me Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overheard If they ever catch Osama Bin Laden, I don't think there's any real need to go through any sort of trial and punishment. I think they should just turn him loose next to the line for security screening at any major American airport Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Traveleing Blues If they ever catch Osama Bin Laden, I don't think there's any real need to go through any sort of trial and punishment. I think they should just turn him loose next to the line for security screening at any major American airport Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Years 2009 I dont think you get real philosophy without misery. I think sitting in your office, drinking a cup of coffee, munching thoughtfully on stale Christmas cookies while staring out the window at a howling blizzard gives you some real motivation for forward thinking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easy Life Giant insurance companies and auto executives in private jets have begged for money, and after getting it, some actually decided that using the taxpayer's money for retreats at private resorts was the proper thing to do Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warm Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Something Real The whole mess gets even goofier when you realize that a lot of what we were going into debt for was made and imported from other countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birthday Now I'm in my fifties. So is Michael Jackson. This does not make me feel better. He may be a gifted musician who has written and performed amazing music and made millions of dollars in the process, but he's crazy and�you know�weird Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ready for Spring Imagine someone dumping a 55 gallon drum of blended margaritas mixed with mud on your windshield Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York Monsters New Yorkers are real screamers. That was strange to me, too. I don't know many screamers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Stupid Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listening In Between lack of talent and a stunning ability to inflict damage upon myself, I'll stick to a computer keyboard and leave the edged implements to someone else Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Billion Dollars I understand the concern. The folks on Wall Street don't know how to run a business (with losses in the past year 107 billion and counting), but they're great at wasting money and that's good for the economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Handwriting That's a problem � if I sell someone an autographed book, it'd be nice if they could tell that it was my autograph Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Olympics THEY'RE LITTLE GIRLS! Standing around giggling is what they're supposed to do it's part of their job description Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feminist I understand the difficulties of being a woman, and in order to help my womenfolk make their way in a hostile world, I try to let them do as much work as possible. This helps them to be strong and independent women. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goodness I think it says a lot about the basic goodness of humanity that so few people get spit on in malls. 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For me, the state of the world is now more important than it was Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What I Deserve They always asked me to tell the story about my first date with their mother, and I�d always oblige, and make up a different lie every time, which they found vastly amusing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Stupid The people who are telling us we need to do hard, unpleasant things don't have a very good track record and I don't see them down in the trenches along with the rest of us Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buying Bread I'm not saying that people who work at giant supermarkets are unfriendly, but that's not a conversation I've ever had in one of those stores that's bigger than a township Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4th of July 2008 Ben Franklin loved to tell fart jokes and was very fond of the ladies. George Washington drank a lot. John Adams was a grump and Patrick Henry was kind of arrogant and obnoxious Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Day After Another memorable point was the prom scene, which started with a couple who've been two-stepping together for half a century and ended with a pair who've been dancing with considerably more vigor for just a few months Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Down to the Wood I think most people know there�s a need for some hard work and clear thinking and it�s past time to start in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dumb Stuff They were shown a houseboat to climb onto and each one was handed a lime-green Speedo � and told to put it on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toilet We bought the new toilet during our latest remodeling project based on the observation that even though it, too, was a water saving model, it could flush a Buick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Electing a President I just don't care how rich Senator McCain's wife is. I don't care where Senator Obama went to church and I don't care about Senator Clinton's hair style or jewelry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cheekbones It�s a little like having the ability to grow hair in my ears. Sure, I probably should be grateful for any hair growth, but the gratitude is a little tempered Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drinking your Politics It seems there's this expensive booze that's in very short supply. It's made, a few bottles at a time, in a distillery way back in the Scottish Highlands � by goats wearing kilts is my understanding Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wayne Philosophy Most men aren't willing. 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If you�re too dumb to take care of your environment, death for you and yours is the inevitable result Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas 2007 Still, behind my grey beard and puzzled eyes, Scrooge is always lurking, along with the concerns about what Christmas is really supposed to be about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cheap Grace We're just all about cheap grace here. In our churches, in our politics and in our society Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Manly Scent I'd go to work with my hands smelling like Chanel Number 5. It didn't bother the hogs, but the guys I worked with thought it was pretty funny Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit Cards That's not something you want to hear, some clerk saying, �Yeah, you're over the limit. You can have the coffee, but I'll have to take back the scone.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Charge sure, you bet, I want the ginger ale, the trail mix, five or six movies, a five gallon pail of mint chocolate chip ice cream and maybe a chorus line of dancing hamsters and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing a medley of Beatles songs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miracle of the Hunt I�ve hunted with guys who had spent thousands of dollars to train their highly specialized, purebred dogs. We�ve spent zero time and money training Cricket and believe me, it shows Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morning News I don't fret about the sexual orientation of real people � I have to admit I'm completely indifferent to the gender issues of fictional wizards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleeping As soon as my neck gives way and my head snaps backward and bounces off the back of the pew, I wake up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Duck The only harm I've managed to cause the ducks was the sore stomach muscles they got from laughing at me Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I believe in poetry The conversation that night occasionally left me in the dust, especially when they talked about translations of Persian poetry or opera, but then it would swerve back to more familiar territory, like flaming rats and politics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Shotgun There's an old saying �One shot - one duck, two shots - maybe one duck, three shots - no duck Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eggs A buddy recommended that I take a hatchet out to the coop and hang it on the wall. Nothing really threatening, just a little reminder that there are alternative chicken-based proteins other than eggs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website of Mice and 'Manda... I wasn't thrilled with the idea of an obituary titled �Farmer crashes pickup while screaming like a wounded possum,� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going to the Fair But really, how many traveling carnival workers are going to read this column AND be motivated enough to find where I live and come over and beat me up? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Responsibility It seems like the more powerful a person becomes, the less responsible they need to be Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bats in the Belfry There were people in the house who thought this was not a viable permanent solution. 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