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Adult Non-Fiction Humor and Non-Fiction Poetry by Rod A. Walters
PROFILES IN SMART-ALECK: Why Doesn't It Rain Beer?
"SMART-ALECK"
Everybody has the smarts to look at the parts of their life that need a little work. If it is true that the "unexamined life isn't worth living" (Socrates ???), then by all means examine yours, just for the heck of it. Then poke fun at the parts that need a little work. It will feel good to laugh. Especially before anyone else gets a chance to.
To say "being a smartaleck" about POLITICS is repeating oneself
Why not? By all means the reader should throw smartalecky darts at even what this writer says about politics. He's 50% wrong, but no one agrees which 50%.
How to be smartalecky about HISTORY
They say that HISTORY repeats/doesn't/just rhymes. Don't accept that blather! Sometimes it's silly, or doesn't make much sense. See some great examples in this section. Besides, who would know that fire, beer, and bread were invented by the same Primitive genius (see page 54)? Got any videos to prove otherwise?
SCIENCE isn't exempt from a little poking
Good heavens, science is really a "way of thinking," rather than a string of facts in a room full of dusty volumes. Get the real dirt on the start of crop rotation (page 38).
Anyone think LIFE is exempt from finding the smartalecky stuff?
Not on your life (or anyone else's)! LIFE is pretty wide topic to cover, so think about one important historical thinker -- The Thinker (A. Rodin's great sculpture)! Page 167 tells exactly what the real statue is probably thinking.
You know all those hard subjects in school?
Oh you know -- economics, art history, calculus, philosophy? Et-cetera? You may have avoided them because they reaally did sound hard. Not really!! Find out how to tackle those items, and make your friends oooh & ahhh. Maybe even grumble about you.
OPEN SMART-ALECK ANYWHERE AND BEGIN...
...you will be happy with any page where you start. Then pick another page after that. And another. Then another. They will all make you happy.
GOLDEN GREMLIN: A GENTLE PUSH FROM MISANTHROPES AND GEEZERS
Gremlins -- Golden ones indeed!
Seniority has it's value. And values. Those values are truly solid, which allows a skeptical and smartalecky senior to see life with humor. Or else.
Misanthropes don't really hate people
Mostly. In truth, they merely prefer their own company most of the time. Except when they don't. Which makes us pretty much like everybody else.
Geezers don't hate people either
Because they don't even bother with trivia like other people. You see -- someone else's opinion about themselves is none of their business.
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About the Author
Rod Walters
...lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife. “Walters” is a writing name, but those who know him easily recognizes him from that mediocre head shot, improved by an excellent quality B&W film. He spent the first part of his working life as an Army officer, then a corporate engineer. Now he writes.