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One day a student came to see Billy-Bob Gautama, and found him, beaming, staring at something in his hand.  “Look,” said Billy-Bob.  “I just found this.  It is a piece of the truth.”  “The truth?” said the student.  “Looks to me like a carburetor from a ‘68 Chev.”  “And that is just what it is!  [...]

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“Carrying a grudge will just weigh you down.  It’ll lower your spirits and take the joy out of life.  If you think someone has done you dirt, bust his face in and then forget about it.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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The World Socialist Web Site has just finished a four-part article on the 1938 general driver’s strike in Minneapolis.  It’s quite good.  It can be found here.

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“Just knowing you got a spare tire and a jack is soothing even if you never need ‘em.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Seems like some of them boys need to use a lot of words to tell you ’bout how words don’t mean nothin’.  Dang.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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One day a student came to Billy-Bob Gautama and said, “Goat, a fellow has just driven up from San Antonio and says he came to pick a fight with you. He’s waiting for you at The Roundup. ” “Very well,” said Billy-Bob. “Tell him I will be there in five minutes.” [...]

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A hot summer’s day
Perspiration on my brow;
A/C in the truck.
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“What unites us is greater than what divides us.  We all wish to receive kindness.  We are all glad of a cool breeze on a hot day.  We all think interleague play is stupid.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“What an amazing thing is the mind!  It begins to work the moment you are born, and goes right on working until you meet a pretty girl.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“You don’t paint the shack ’cause it builds character, you paint the shack ’cause it needs painting.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Do not seek the truth.  Only cease to cherish opinions.  I mean, other people’s.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Pain in inevitable.  Suffering is optional.  That’s why we have whiskey.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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It seems that Cory Doctorow likes my book.  I am happy.  Praise from Caesar is praise indeed, as some Hungarian once said.

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“A peaceful mind is the greatest goodness, if you don’t have any beer.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“When the mind is mutable like 30-weight oil, truth will enter as through a clean intake manifold, and the emotions will be in harmony like a good mixture in the carburetor, and the soul will be like, I don’t know, some other thing.”
– Billy-Bob Gatuama

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“Air conditioning is impermanent. Be a fan unto yourself.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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Radio ballgame,
A bottle of Shiner Bock:
Here is nirvana.
— Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Only spirit is eternal.  And a bad case of the itch.” — Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Work is love made visible.  What’s that mean?  Nuthin’.  But it sounds deep, don’t it?  Dang.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Whoever knows himself knows God.  Whoever knows how to make corn liquor can see God any time he wants.”
–Billy-Bob Gautama

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“He who knows others is wise.  He who knows himself is enlightened.  He who knows how to keep a Dodge pickup running ain’t never gonna be out of a job.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Consider the trees which allow the birds to perch and fly away without either inviting them to stay or desiring them never to depart. If your heart can be like this, you will be near to the way.  If that don’t work, you can always shoot the little varmints and make ‘em into blackbird [...]

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“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside [...]

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“A snow flake never falls in the wrong place.  That’s the main difference between snow flakes and bird shit.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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(If the tune isn’t obvious, you are lucky, and I won’t ruin your life by directing you to the original)
It’s after midnight on Saturday
The tourney’s been running since nine.
The rock to my left is my only hope
Since he’s never defended his blinds.
So the action folds all the way round to me
I make the only move [...]

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One day Preacher Higgens went to see Billy-Bob Gautama.  He said, “Goat, I don’t mind you being a Buddhist and all, but I can’t help but wish you were a Christian Buddhist.”  “Why, Preacher, that’s just what I am,” said Billy-Bob.  “I got a ‘Support our Troops’ bumper sticker, I don’t want Darwin taught in [...]

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Billy-Bob Gautama said to the student, “To understand reality, we must drop mind and body.  Corn liquor works for both.”  The student said, “But Goat, didn’t you say yesterday that drinking doesn’t lead to truth, but should be done for it’s own sake?”  Billy-Bob hit the student with the short staff named Hank.  The student [...]

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I think that I shall never love
A play as much as the all-in shove.
When I just smile and hitch my belt
And take myself down to the felt,
Then lean back, say something funny,
Like, “Call this if you don’t like money.”
My opponent weighs my expression bland:
How much does he like his hand?
The mound of chips that I [...]

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One day a thief broke into Billy-Bob Gautama’s house, only to discover there was nothing to steal.  Billy-Bob returned and caught him and said, “Friend, I’m sorry I have nothing.  But you shouldn’t leave empty handed, so at least take a drink of this corn liquor.”  The thief gratefully drank the corn liquor, and continued [...]

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The Four Virtues:
1. Eternity:  Your truck will last a long time if you take good care of it.
2. Joy: It’s fun to get drunk with Wasted Willie Borgess.
3. Personality: The couch sitting on your front porch doesn’t look like the couch sitting on anyone else’s front porch.
4. Assurance: Never let ‘em know they got to [...]

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“Drinking to excess is no path to spiritual Truth.  Drinking to excess must be done for it’s own sake.”
Billy-Bob Gautama

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