Student loans are delaying retirements. They’re suppressing the housing market. They’re suffocating new business formation. They’re even leading young people to delay getting married and having children.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
‘Writing’ always means ‘not writing’ to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party – especially in comedy – is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.
It all comes down to perspective. When I get crabby about something, like the delay that was driving me crazy because I told my kids I’d be home for dinner, I have to remind myself where it fits in the scheme of things. We have to say, ‘That’s life,’ which can sometimes be comforting.
When I listen to a fascist, like Rush Limbaugh or Tom Delay or somebody like that, they help me define my views. I ask myself, ‘Why do I feel so strongly the opposite of what that guy is saying? He’s not stupid. He’s evil, but why is he evil?’
When you use the word ‘filibuster,’ most of us in America – and I count myself among them – envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
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