My wife sent me a moving clip of Bruce Springsteen singing about 9/11.  It was accompanied by images from Ground Zero.  I found this one the most powerful images.  I sent the clip to a good friend of mine who is a REAL Bruce fan, and without prompting he emailed that he also found the same image the most powerful.

I wanted to include the clip for you guys, but my blog host has changed all the management tools and I can't do shit right anymore.

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A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer.  The finding is the strongest evidence yet that the art of making antibiotics, which officially dates to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, was common practice nearly 2000 years ago.

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( Just another sign that you have a drinking problem...that was one of my own captions...but what a beautiful photo)

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WARNING: Drinking may cause memory loss.  Or worse, memory loss.

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Good luck with that, you sick bastard...if we knew him better we would probably have worse things to say about him.

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We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with our weirdness, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

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I'm not a complete idiot...some parts are missing.

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"HOW TO CONTROL DREAMS"

(Scientific American)

You can do this by identifying something that is consistently or usually different from your sleeping and waking experience.  Lots of people find they can't read text in a dream, that if they see text it's fuzzy.  People who can read in a dream will still report that the text is not stable; if they look away and then back, it says something different or there's no longer any writing there. So trying to read something in a dream is a good test for lost of people.  Others find that things like light switches and other knobs don't do what they expect them to do in a dream.
(I bet you didn't know that)

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Having sex in jail is illegal in New York, but they have just installed free condom machines.

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Would somebody please try this out and let me know if it works...

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Caffeine helps you do stupid things faster.

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( I like this )

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AND NOW A FEW CARTOONS THAT OUGHT TO OFFEND JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY...

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Have you ever heard that toilets flush backwards in Australia? I had and believed it.  It had something to do with the spin of the earth, but if you think about it just a minute, you will realize that the earth spins in the same direction all over the world.  TOILETS DO NOT SPIN BACKWARDS SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR.
(however, hurricanes do spin differently, but it has to do with prevailing winds)

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Tonight at the American Legion I had this exchange with a friend of mine who is...oh...a thousand years old.
Bartender: Dom, that'll be $1.75.
Me: A bargain at any price.
Dom: If it's cold I don't give a fuck what they charge me.
Me: Beer has been around a long time, you know.  The Egyptians even had it.
Dom: Hell, I don't give a shit, I'm divorced.

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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
( oooooor, as some think, you float up in the sky and live happily ever after for trillions and trillions and trillions of eons....coooooool )

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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There is an entire website of nothing but pictures of dogs standing on logs.  Welcome to the 21st Century!

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Went for pizza tonight at our favorite place.  At the register we ordered and decided who would pay by paying rock, paper, scissors (with people waiting).  I had paper, Debbie had rock, so I declared that I won, so she would pay.  But the poor woman didn't know how to play rock, paper, scissors and I had to get a ruling from total strangers.
Then, I ordered the pizza double cut...a term I had always thought I invented.  That means twice as many slices, of course, since I have a huge mustache and I find the thinner slices more convenient.  Anyway the cashier touched a button on the register when I said the words "double cut" and I gasped, YOU HAVE A BUTTON ON THE REGISTER FOR DOUBLE CUT?!?!?!
She smiled and said that the owner had added the button just for me.
I was....honored.

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Pay Attention: I think that life is a universal imperative.  It's just what the stuff of the universe does. But I'm not going to pray to it before I eat or before I go to sleep.

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(this next one took me a few seconds...you ladies might want to ask your husbands)

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I got this email tonight:
"You had an image in your blog of a guy on base named Hu.  Today I was on a conference call and someone asked where Sheng was. I sent them the image and said he was on first.  Sheng works for me and his full name is Sheng Hu. It was hilarious.  The image is now on his desk.  Thanks!"
( just doing my part to bridge the cultural divide )

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( NOTE: I joke about everything, and I take pride in that, but spousal abuse is one of my trip wires.  If you happen to be one of those men who have hit your bride...then fuck you )

Finally....the perfect mattress for men...

One of my very own...

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There was an article in the newspaper this morning about a black man, Tim Scott, who is running for congress here in South Carolina in an overwhelmingly white district.  Let me quote part of it:
"At a 1983 meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, he had an epiphany.  He already had come under the guidance of an owner of a local Chick-fil-A franchise."
(That, dear readers, is not only factual, but fucking hilarious!)
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