I was talking to a friend Tuesday about the death of "common sense" and he gave me a great example. His teenage son walked into the house and said that his pickup truck would not "go". They walk out side and the father looks down the road and ask, "How did it get down there?" The son says, "Well, it started and then it quit." The dad asks, "Does it have gas?" "Well the slow fuel light is on, but I've seen it on before and it had gas." It was out of gas.
That night I was watching the 10 o'clock news and a story came on about (I'm not making this up) a Christian women's pole dancing group! They are doing suggestive dances to Christian rock music around a stripper's pole. Pole dancing for Jesus! The woman interviewed was wearing tight, tight shorts and top. She explained how she felt a deep spiritual feeling while gyrating around the pole.
Yesterday, a client wanted to know how quick we could finish construction on his school because of a tight timeline governed by the federal grant. The construction manager said, "Well, unless you let us start, we'll NEVER finish!" The client has been stalling for 6 weeks and has not signed the contract while continually complaining about the deadline! The school may loose a $1,800,000 school building because they can't seem to get together to approve the project.
Last week I heard a guy complaining that Obama should impose a "No Fly Zone "over Libya. This week he complained because Obama imposed a "No Fly Zone" over Libya.
As Voltaire said: "Common Sense is not so common."
Emerson said, "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
Coleridge: "Common Sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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