Stoic Thinker Pillows

'News gets out that the Stoics' annual party has been cancelled.'

'Everything's going to hell, but, as an optimist, I feel it will still take some time for it to happen.'

'Can't they just switch to smaller barrels?'

"Think you're pretty manly, eh? OK, put the gun down and let's have a fair fight."

"The prostate biopsy shows your pain threshold is much higher than normal."

'Loved your bit on market share, Felton - perfect blend of plausibility and outright deception.'

"Imagine if only 1/2 the companies that claimed to have a great culture actually did."

"Let's face it. The only play you've ever liked is 'Stop the World - I Want to Get Off.'"

A political promise is intended to be a golden egg...Which is kept in a pork barrel and after an election...Hatches into a dead duck before...it turns invisible so it can quietly vanish.

The New Normal

A sign on the front lawn of a house reads "Keep off the chemicals".

Dept. Sustainable Energy.

Community church - the home of religion lite - Sermon: 'Atheism? You may be right!'

"And here is where we started putting profits before people."

"I can Botox it, but I don’t want to freeze up my sixth chakra."

"Why do I hate religion? Imagine if half the money ever donated to religion had instead been used for scientific research. That's the world religion stole from me! Instead of worrying about the coronavirus, I could be slaying orcs on a starship's holodeck!"

'Alright, just this once. One, two, three, four, five...'

Scientific Research: 'Uh...why'd it take'em 20 yeahs t' figyah that out?'

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"Let's try to think of something that untold millions of people will buy."

"It was Socrates, wasn't it, who said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living'?"

'Then, as you can see, we give them some multiple choice tests.'

'My problem is that I am an informed citizen.'

'He was a Stoic's Stoic.'

The sounds of a tree falling in the forest.

Population train.

'Now, at first glance, this may LOOK like a challenge.'

"This report is replete with errors, distortions and downright lies, yet I find its moral message quite uplifting."

"If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we admit that the moon landing was a big conspiracy?"

'They're misbehaving again. What do we do this time? - flood or global warming?'

'If we had a bill of rights that got wronged, would it be right or wrong for a judge to right that wrong?'

"For you young scientists who hope to do public service work someday, the following six experiments, showing the basic ideas behind chemical warfare...."