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This is the third day in a row that I’ve posted a hengish thing.

This photo of a magnificent stone pile from Crissy Field in San Francisco was taken by Richard Drake.  It was sent to me by his brother and my friend Bill Drake of South Carolina.

It reminds me of the stone piles in Hawaii,  Maine

and Southern California that I have, for no apparent reason, memorialized before.

Here is a Henge that didn’t work.

The proportion is wrong and the lintel doesn’t look right.

I think it could be better with hot melt glue but it seems heretical to destroy books for whimsical art.   Even books that are entirely homeless with no prospect of ever being adopted, let alone read.

We will have to go back to the books on this one.

Here are the details on the Temple library book sale,  preparation for which has been consuming my time for the past month:

Here is a gratuitously entered picture of a book that may or may not be at the sale:

You need this book.

If you could own a couple of hundred seriously out of date energy bars what would you do?

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From the book

Great Jewish Quotes

More in this Flickr album

“I don’t care about inequality. 

I care about how well the people at the bottom live.”

Dennis Prager

Author and Scholar

New Book Still the Last Best Hope

In the last few weeks I have received a couple of pieces of mail about signing up for Medicare.

I started a folder.  What else can I do.  259 days to go.  I’m not going to think about the choices until about 60 days before my birthday.  My hip has stopped hurting so the taxpayers can relax a little.

btw You are eligible for Medicare on the first of the month that your birthday falls in so I’m eligible on July 1, 2012.  Only 247 days to go.  Should I change the counter?

Bridges make it easier to visit, trade and …fight.
Oh well!

Sidney Lanier Bridge

A Glass Bridge

I had to look up “paraprosdokian”. Here is the definition:
“Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation.”
“Where there’s a will, I want to be in it,” is an example of a paraprosdokian.

Here are a flock more courtesy of Paul D.

1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you.  But it’s still on my list.

3. Light travels faster than sound.  This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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98 And No Enemies

Toward the end of the Sunday service, the Minister asked, “How many of you have forgiven your enemies?”

80% held up their hands.

The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one man, an avid golfer named Walter Barnes, who attended church only when the weather was bad.

“Mr. Barnes, it’s obviously not a good morning for golf. It’s good to see you here today. Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?”

“I don’t have any,” he replied gruffly.

“Mr. Barnes, that is very unusual. How old are you?”

“Ninety-eight,” he replied.
The congregation stood up and clapped their hands.

“OK, Mr. Barnes, would you please come down in front & tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years & not have an enemy in the world?”

The old golfer tottered down the aisle, stopped in front of the pulpit, turned around, faced the congregation, and said simply,

“I outlived all the sons of bitches.”

Thanks to Scott H for this joke.