Ten Things I Believe Today

 1. Illiterate people are just as 'smart' as intellectuals.....when crap hits the fan, and chaos reigns.

2.  Trying to be respectful toward any politician today.....is demanding a lot of patience.

3.  Anyone wearing a sweatshirt 'hoodie' in 90-degree heat....is nuts.

4.  The minute you identify yourself as a fact-checker....I'm doubting whatever you say by 50-percent.

5.  In mafia-chatter, the minute you say the 'big-guy'....it automatically means he takes a 10-percent cut....even if he's just there to sip a coffee.

6.  If common sense was indexed-out....the majority of people would never get past '5' (scale of one to ten).  

7.  Who is supposed to utter 'God save the Queen'?  In 99.9-percent of cases....only British subjects, in case you were wondering.

8. Two decades ago, if you'd ever uttered the term 'provocative'.....you did it with a slight French accent, intending to identify some 'slutty' gal, and you probably only uttered it once a year (usually after four beers).  Today?  You might utter it ten to twenty times a year, and it has nothing to do with 'slutty' women..

9.  I think at least one-third of viewers to ABC/CBS/NBC nightly news....will mute on occasion, and it's reaching a point where locals do the same to their local TV news of the region.

10.  Without a pistol/rifle 'brace'....if you fired ten rounds (say in ten seconds)....I'd give pretty good odds to whoever/whatever you were aiming at....got hit on the first round, and the next nine missed.  I'm not saying this was the government intention in outlawing the 'brace', but firing the next nine rounds are a total waste (in my humble view).