Power Pondering Mugs

George Bush with The Sword of Damocles

"But can't I be feared and loved?"

"Needs to get a life"

A small number of people are afraid of heights, but there is an epidemic fear of widths.

'Doctor, I don't want to eat mouseburgers, I want to be normal like everybody else.'

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'At least I don't have his life.'

'If someone farts in the forest and there's no one around to smell it, does it make a stink?'

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

The Male Atom: Sex, Sport, War and Good Intentions.

"When will I be old enough to have an inner child?"

"I advised a patient to take responsibilty for his own actions, and now he is suing me!"

"Just when I thought I had all the answers, I forgot what the questions were."

Max Weber

"I've been studying reverse psychology at Tonga Tech Online University."

"Think outside the box but never forget who owns the box."

Telling Self to Buzz Off

'...and please God, protect the social security fund for another sixty years.'

"I don't know why I'm here - I don't need a haircut."

'Well, that brings us up to my third birthday...'

Caption Contest TK

I see

What brings you to therapy, Rudy? Dr. Noodle. I've been feeling like my whole life is on pause. And I can't find the remote to unpause it. Meanwhile, everyone else's stories are proceeding apace. They're all into the second act already. They've all had plot twists, and hero's journeys, and epic love scenes, and thrilling reversals of fortune ... Meanwhile, I'm still paused on the opening credits because no remote. Why don't you get up off the couch and unpause it manually? You can do that?

'Please don't read anything into the fact that I'm wearing loafers. I assure you I'm a very energetic worker.'

Yeah, I woke up as a roach because I was so full of existential dread – Why did you wake up as a dung beetle?

That's no big deal, a lot of people get Siskel and Ebert mixed up

"Nothing can be done about crime unless you deal with the root causes in the environment."

'It's not just his insane jealousy - he also insists on choosing all my clothes.'

Jealousy

"Does my brain look big in this?"

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

The Loneliness of Power

"Would you look at the carrot on that guy!"

A man about to plug in a lamp looks at electric sockets on the wall that say 'Solar,' 'Hydro Electric' and 'Nuclear.'