• It takes preposterous presumption to make the preposterous possible.
  • It is for us to say what we see, not to have others agree.
  • The idea is not to get close, but there.
  • Questioning may not suffice where only a challenge will do.
  • For individual brilliance to be recognized, it might take years or decades, for socially-ensconced dumbness, an eternity.
  • A philosopher’s perch may be high. But if his words sound strange, do not imagine it’s because of hypoxia. ;-)
  • Let not the degree of preparedness of the net determine the height of the leap or the depth of the plunge.
  • Gotta puts eggs in some basket.
  • I may be deep in a rut, but hold off on the dirt.
  • Of the many possible responses to the status quo, such as breaking, challenging, or even accepting, the commonest is not- or dis-acknowledging.
  • Anyone appealing to another’s emotions is hoping to pull off an emotional con(fidence) job, whether wittingly or otherwise.
  • A case is merely an acknowledged instance of a broader natural or human phenomenon. So why get excited or outraged at the case, per se?
  • On Earl Scruggs’ passing on: He’s not dead, only gone. Maybe Flatt gone. The most gone banjo player who ever lived.
  • Was not made normal, so how can I be?
  • Short shorts: an oxymoron necessitated by morons (and their co-opting of the term for what are actually longs)? Well maybe not an oxymoron but a tautology. Moronic, nonetheless.
  • It’s not right for anyone to play anyone else’s music right. Right?
  • Jay’s Preposterosity Wall of Fame: #? A country of 1.2 billion touting the idea of sustainability (of anything at all).
  • All parents believe they want their offspring to have the best; all also believe it is only they who can know that best.
  • On postmodern art etc.: If throwing together stuff into meaningless, aesthetic-less crap is valid, so is calling it just that.
  • Discriminating individual and discriminating group–huge difference.
  • Thoughts spurred by one thing often seem to apply to other things. Is it in the nature of things, or of thoughts, or both?