twenty-seven years and one million words
Anyone want a slightly used 2½ year old?
Here I thought being kicked in the crotch was getting old. But I'll take that over a child-sized foot in the eye any time.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row