2. Compromise beliefs just to keep the peace.

3. Playing the Pass Bar at the Craps table.

4. Ft. Knox is hoarding all the gold, rich people need something else to claim as their own.

5. They should be sentenced to six months in a barely-ventilated box where they must lie in their own filth. If they survive their crusted skin can be scrubbed with a wire johnny-brush.

6. Self-Defence, or the protection of another, justifies force. But the force used must be in proportion to the threat, and only when no other option is valid.

7. Carrots taste best when they're freshly plucked and still have a tint of earth to them; trout tastes best when it was alive an hour before.

8. I think they tolerate migrant workers. Others without permanent residence don't have it easy, it depends on their community just exactly how easy or hard they have it.

9. Hunger, need and desire. If I don't use it someone else will.

10. Because if we didn't work we would afford even less.

11. We've gotten soft in our complacency. (Did I even use the right word? I don't have a dictionary with me. It just sounded right.)

12. Lots are, but I also see many who aren't, so I can't honestly give a good guestimate of the percentage.

13. It might boil back to the old saying "Jack of all trades, master of none." Everybody wants to be the master these days.

14. My obsessive compulsive mind compartmentalizes everything into groups of 26 and assigns a corresponding letter to it. Movies, Books, People, Food, Animals, Countries, etc.

The other thing from scratch would probably be a variant of Shepherd's Pie.

15. Wherever Safeway ships it in from. Someday I'll have a garden again.

16. I can't bake worth squat. Cooking's an art, and that's the only place where I'm somewhat of an artist, but Baking's a science and my mind's not analytical enough.

17. Goodwill. I can't make them.

18. My ex-wife kept it, along with everything else except the bills.

19. A million. How many good jokes can I tell? uh...

20. No thank you. Maybe some other time.

#1 Smile

#2 Exercise

#3 At Work?

#4 I think everything became to virtual and gold was too physical

#5 Community service involving the crime in which they committed. Unless it was cruelty to animals and then something inventive should happen.

#6 No, there will always be people who are willing to harm or take a life, and people need to be able to defend themselves and others against that.

#7 Depends on the food

#8 No, we've become very suburban. Maybe we need a rise in the gypsy population.

#9 Deep question, I can't sum it up in a sentence. I think it needs to be done carefully though.

#10 I think most of us choose not to be nomadic, and have forgotten how to live off the land. We work to survive within the system. We complain about prices because we wish to live better than we do and aren't happy with where we are at.

#11 Too much Seattle, not enough Mason County. Some of us are quite capable of building shelter, hunting, gathering, preparing meals with nothing but a fire and a creek. Maybe it's because being a boy scout is made fun of anymore.

#12 Yes. I'm not above that also, I've had my moments.

#13 If you grow up in a bigger city, yes. I think the country-folk are miles ahead in being a jack of all trades.

#14 A barn, I've helped build a handful of houses also, setup a water system from a spring.

#15 Hmm, China? Not sure. The closest would be from wildlife in Pacific County though.

#16 No, baking is not my forte

#17 No, I cannot make shoes. They are probably from Asia.

#18 I've only owned one, it's sitting in my living room.

#19 Endless possibilities.

#20 I love modern life, because I love life. I do not think it is the way it should be though. The day that we no longer need prisons, and people only own/use firearms for recreational purposes, then I'll think the world is the way it should be.