The Sayings of Roger

Here is a collection of various sayings I have come up with in the course of my musings and ramblings. Updated now and again.

• Americans need to be diligent about protecting enfranchisement, not borders

• The essence of terrorism is violence for TV new's sake.

• Men and women are two different species sharing the same gene pool.

• Standards makers are standards breakers.

• If you can't do, teach. If you can't teach, do TV news.

• Q: Why can humans in their late teens and early twenties work all day and party all night, while older adults and children scratch their heads at where all that endurance comes from?

  A: It's metabolism. Children and young adults have a metabolism set to full throttle, but children are using a big chunk of that to grow. Young adults are finished growing, and their metabolism hasn't slowed down to adult levels yet.

• One of the big changes advancing civilization brings to a community is wideing the scope of who its members can cooperate with.

• Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and teachers are from Planet Pluto.

   

• If you think it's hard to know what a woman will be like as your wife, think how hard it is to know what a woman will be like as your ex-wife.

• It's easier to change a plan than make one. (So, before you start a project, make a plan, even a bad one.)

• Don't invoke conspiracy when simple incompetence can explain what happens.

• Technology can give back what it takes away [in ecologic and cultural damage], but poverty plays for keeps.

• Prosperity pays for ecology.

Roger's Joke of the [fill in the blank]

How do you insult a shape changer?

Start singing, "I love you just the way you are."

Roger's Cosmology Riddle

Question:

If "light matter" is the matter in the universe that is affected by both gravity and light. And if "dark matter" is the matter in the universe that is affected by gravity but not light. What do you call matter in the universe that is not affected by gravity or light?

Answer: Don't Matter

You call it "don't matter" because whatever it is, it don't matter. If something in our universe affects neither light nor gravity, it makes absolutely no difference to what happens in the observable part of our universe.

Roger's Philosophic Nuggets

If ordinary people look like they are doing strange things to you, you haven't observed them closely enough to see the logic underlying their actions.

Q: How high should the fence around a house be?

A: Three feet high. People who respect fences will respect it, but can get over it if they see a need to help inside. People who don't respect fences will climb the fence if it's three, six or nine feet high.

Statement: "The Bible is not a history book or a science book, it is a book of moral instruction."

Roger's Thought: A book of moral instruction based on bad science and bad history. Hmm... It's a good thing it's divinely inspired!

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