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I've
always appreciated the fine art of the bumper sticker.
A
bumper sticker is poetry involving a complex idea cleverly
reduced to the number of words that can be fit on a small
piece of paper in big letters and absorbed at a red light.
It
is American Haiku, a formalized popular form of poetry defined
by a tight but flexible set of constraints and connected to
the primary form of American religious expression and worship,
the automobile.
A
good bumper sticker is so hard to define but, by God, I know
it when I see it.
Since
I think of bumper stickers constantly as I drive around I've
decided to keep a list here. Usually I endorse the sentiment.
In some cases however, I include one here that makes me laugh
even though I wouldn't want to be associated with the sentiment.
If I Lived Here I'd Be Home By Now
Not
Either Or But Both And
Kill
Your TV
Cars are the Problem, Not the Solution
In
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is."
There
is one kind of person in the world:
the kind that divides the world into two kinds of people,
and the kind that does not.
Taxes
are the Price of Civilization
Take
It Easy
You
Can't be Too Cynical ... or Too Trusting
This
is Temporary
Bumper
Stickers Solve Nothing
You're
Sitting in the Problem
Voting
Rights for Children Now!
Jewish
Buddhism - Be Here Now. Later, Be Somewhere Else
There
are no simple solutions to complex problems.
If
war is the answer, someone asked the wrong question.
A
Happy Childhood Lasts a Lifetime
It's
All Temporary
Practice
Compassion
We
are living in the future's long ago golden age when life was
simple and the earth was clean.
Falsehood
is the Enemy of Peace
Just
Passing Through
The
easy answer is the wrong answer.
George
Bush may be a Methodist but there's a madness to his Methodism
My
other car is a $2 plastic toy.
Today
is the the distant past of the distant future.
Thank
You!
Mean
People Are Suffering
Militant
Agnostic: I don't know and you don't either
If
men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
The
fact that no one understands you does not make you an Artist.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow
it from our children.
I'll
"get a life" when someone can show me why that would
be better than what I've got now.
When
cryptography is outlawed, P39@#$p% JWkw09V@#*^
You!
Out of the gene pool!
If
you hold a Unix shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?
Friends
help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
The
media are only as liberal as the conservative businesses that
own them.
~
A
good bumper sticker makes me feel like I'm done thinking for
the day.
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