♪♫ Everybody cut, everybody cut, everybody cut Footloose ♫♪ ~ Me, if I were a surgeon amputating a gangrenous foot.

What is about public restrooms that make people go, "Yeah, I'm just not going to flush that."?

I wish something could be done about drivers that intentionally try to hit me on my bike. On two occasions, this guy in a big bright blue Ford truck has swerved to hit me, on Cranston Road, then flips me off out his window like I did it on purpose. Don't they understand, in their puny minds, that a biker is has no defense when a 3,000# vehicle hits us? I will try to get his plate next time, but if it's anything like last year, the cops will do absolutely nothing about it.

I once dated a woman who owned a parrot. That crazy thing would never shut up. The parrot was kind of cool, though.

I asked a friend for a newspaper. He told me to get with the times, and handed me his iPad. That fly never saw it coming!

One of my favorite posts: : "I could save a lot of money by walking face-first into a spiderweb every morning instead of buying coffee."

One of those things I'll never forget is that amazing moment when my baby son held my finger with his entire hand. Maybe it's just my sentimental silliness, I don't know.

"Call your doctor if you have an erection that lasts more than four hours"....ummm, yeah, I don't know about you but, calling for a medic would not be the first thing on my mind at that point, or hers.

We cannot hope to survive as a nation, without the lessons from the past.  We are one country, one people and have one purpose.  We must strive to make every one of our citizens understand that they can live free and without prejudice. No one should every feel they are without rights and without dignity, for if they do, we have failed in our purpose.

Dave Long, 2011