There are some advantages to growing older. The most obvious is that when you consider the alternative, getting another year older, at any age, isn’t so bad. Another is that you get to look back and remember fondly, some of your youthful experiences.
One experience that I remember is watching Art Linkletter do his “Kids say the darndest things” bit. If you aren’t old enough, and haven’t seen one of the clips, Art Linkletter would get any number of kids together, all of whom were typically under the age of 10, and ask them questions. Time and again, the answers the kids gave would leave the watchers in stitches. The kid’s answers were innocent and top of mind. While factual, they usually had a naive or certainly unnuanced view of the world. Look at the following clip to get a sense of the fun that Linkletter had…all without paid actors:
The reason I bring Linkletter up is that I saw another video today in which a person was asked a question and the response left me in stitches. Like Linkletter’s kids, this respondent answered innocently with what was top of mind. In other words, the person answered honestly and without the bother of real world nuance. Here, watch the video and see if you don’t agree:
I’m glad we have free political speech in this country…at least for now. With free speech we get to see Pete Stark and people like him, lay out in simple, plain English, their contempt for the Constitution and for those who believe it actually has a purpose. He also lays out in plain English, why he and his ilk should be removed from office and offered a relocation package to the People’s Paradise of Cuba.
