I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a ‘surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow’. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
Edward Abbey
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2 comments:
One person's hypocrisy, cant, sham, and dogmatic ideology, is another person's fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
What are we to do about that, dear Edward?
we need to make more room for curmudgeons
i'm starting a political movement
curmudgeons rights!
take it to the streets boys
a curmudgeon is always a male
i mean a woman can't be a curmudgeon
what would be the feminine counterpart of curmudgeon?
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