John Branning

Thin-Skinned Beneath My Wings

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

"Each rabbit would show respect to me! / The chipmunks genuflect to me!" ~ "If I Were King Of The Forest"

"Oh, down in Mexico / I never really been so I don't really know" ~ James Taylor

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Ven·tril·o·quism (noun) -- the art of speaking so that another's words appear to come from a dummy.

He had to fly halfway around the world to tweet, golf and eat hamburgers?

"And you may ask yourself / Am I right? Am I wrong? / And you may say to yourself, 'My God! What have I done?'" ~ Talking Heads