Humor

Not everything has to be serious, and this category is where I keep the writing that is meant to make you smile. Humor, observations, the absurd, and the collected lines and jokes I have gathered over the years because they were too good to lose.

I think humor is underrated as a way of telling the truth. A good joke often gets closer to something real than a serious argument does, and a sharp line can lodge in your memory long after a lecture has faded. Some of the wisest things I have ever encountered arrived disguised as something funny.

The posts here are the lighter side of the collection. Read them when you want to laugh rather than think too hard, though the best of them manage to do both at once.

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Fortune Cookies

For many years I collected quotations: lines from books, plays, speeches, comedians, computer culture, proverbs, and the old Unix fortune files. I called the collection my fortune cookies, because like…