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Indubitably. My favorite LGCSR (Maduro) experience was sitting in a lawn chair on the ramp at our local municipal airport on a beautiful, cool sunny day, watching the students doing touch-and-goes in the pattern. Mmmm.

I smoked my first ISOM awhile back. A coworker of my wife's went to Germany, and brought back a box of tiny Cuban perfectos: Partagas Petit Bouquets. Never heard of them before; they're natural, maybe 3.5x38 or 40 (no size marked), and they smell very, very nice. They're about the same size...

Three items Advice for a Happy Marriage from Robert Heinlein: 1. Rub her feet. 2. Make sure she has her own desk, and keep your mitts off it! 3. If, in the course of a family argument, it should become apparent that you are right and she is wrong, apologize immediately.

Four at a time in your Fortress of Solitude, eh? (grin)

In the summertime, if I'm not flying myself, it's nice to go out to the local municipal airport and watch the students practicing in the pattern from a lawn chair. (I don't smoke before I fly because carbon monoxide aggravates the effects of hypoxia. I probably absorb little enough CO while...

A woman comes stomping angrily down the stairs into the kitchen and sets about preparing breakfast. Presently there are sounds of movement upstairs. She pauses to listen. She can hear her husband moving from the bedroom into the bathroom. She hears the door close. There is a pause. She...

Hmm. The way I heard it was that the only reason the Navy took Marines along in the first place was so that the Navy guys'd have somebody to dance with.

I've tried the re-lighting thing with a few cigars, just to see for myself. I figure if I don't have time to smoke a cigar completely, there's no harm in letting the stub go out and then trying a relight later. I mean, I've already thrown it away once, right? At the worst, I'll just end up...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you. (You don't have to refer to me as God, though; just go down briefly on one knee before you address me, and we'll call it even. :) ) With more than half the gross revenue of this country going directly to support the government, I'd say it had...

Yup, could be. They didn't kill him. A few things don't add up, though. When it comes to being a sniper, this Mohammed guy is a really bad fit. First: to be politically incorrect, I am acquainted with a number of precision shooters, and not a single one of them is black. I've met a few...

Congratulations on another year...

You think? I've considered this, and I keep coming back to the "I am God" remark. Does that sound like a Muslim to you? Somehow it just doesn't to me. The ransom demand also seems more like an angry white male than an Islamic terrorist.

Be cautious with your agreement: it carries with it consequences that may at first be unseen. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, and our military, being the most powerful the world has ever seen, gives our government the closest thing to absolute power in foreign policy that is likely to be...

I can't stand it, I have to use a quote box. I'll do what I gotta do, and you folks do what you gotta do. Have your secretary type that up and I'll sign it. I think there are some people in government who are just plain evil, and have always been that way, and always will. I can name names...

Okay, so on your scale burning a US flag is worse than talking bad about the government? Why? (I know, it's a peripheral question, but I'm curious.) No, I've never burned a US flag on purpose, unless you count stuff like burning a load of trash that includes the box in which a toy GI Joe came...

This one's for PuroBrat, in response to where he was indignant that I misquoted him. (This whole getting-quotes-straight thing, you know, would be much easier with quote boxes. I just thought I'd point that out. :) ) I'm sorry to have misrepresented you, brother, and you're right, I do know...

How do you know who I'm talking to if I don't use quote boxes? Just by context? Sheesh, you guys are good. I'm a software developer; I need more structure and order than this. This one is in response to McPatrickClan (did I spell that right?) where he said all the nice things about me and...

A damn headache, eh? You too? "If a man calleth thee a donkey, pay him no mind. If two men call thee a donkey, get thee a saddle." Okay, okay, I'll try to do it without the quote boxes. Argh. You probably won't catch me in Las Vegas in this lifetime, but I'm sure that treatment would do me...

Sure, that's fine too. I'm a little concerned about misunderstanding again, though. Since I became a libertarian, I began to understand the differences between our country (a parcel of land), America (an idea), its people (as I have said before, a group so incredibly diverse that little of use...

Oooh--I would love for you to finish that thought. I don't just sound nuts, now I...? The suspense is killing me. Ah. Thanks for that. I'm a pretty light smoker, of...ah...around a year's experience, I guess, so I haven't gotten around to everything yet. (Why would Partagas give a cigar a...