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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

You Win Some, You Lose Some; You Win All, You Lose All

An uninterrupted winning streak
Can only be had through
An unchanging mean streak

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Prime Time

My dreams are no longer about wish fulfillment but about the Amazon fulfillment center
Choose Your Own Leviathan While You Still Can

For now American democracy such as it is is still getting the people it deserves
He Blinded Me With Silence

Now Is not the time for Waiting to decide; Now Is the time for
A Reading From 3rd Acts

While others await the second coming my own second shortcoming (the first– keeping the peace
All Diets Are Plant-Based on Hard Facts

In boxing you can be the real champ by beating the man who beat the man Just so
The Chaos Theory of Everything, or, My Wife Knows Everything

I have a prediction to make: We can’t predict the ending But when it’s all said and done Everything will seem obvious For example,
We Call It The Industrious Watercourse

I thought the Protestant work eth… I saw all the lazy rivers in peopl… until I noticed they were each swi… against the current
The Talking Cure for Everything

If we know our physics is real Because GPS works Then we know our God is real Because language works
Relationships Begin with Chemistry and End with Alchemy, but Where Chemistry Is a Science, Alchemy Is a Mystery: The Work of Marriage Is Never Done, Which Is How It’s Done

If the honeymoon is over And things have gone leaden Rejoice, you have a lot of work to… Which is known as the golden age
I Believe Because It’s Observed

An ideology will fail when followers are asked to believ… despite the fact that it isn’t tru… but will succeed as soon as those followers believe
Haiku

Mistakes are inev– itable; owning them is inestimable
I’m a Fool

Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble
Because, Of Course, It’s All Over

I won the day when my antagonist branded me a reactionary because, of course, I’m an overreactionary
It Takes Two to Tango, but One to Commando

My wife is philosophically opposed to my habit of justifying things, say a bag of the really good kind… with the phrase: I deserve it
If You Want to Make Someone Weak, Make It Easy for Them

Our enemies believe we are weak Because our elites believe that we… When, of course, strength is for p… Which our elites will only come to… When they find that they can’t pro…



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