The Safe Statement

All fresh ideas begin to lose some of their bloom as soon as you tell someone.

In a routine political context, I heard one City pundit declare, “All do well in Ireland except the Irish,” and the unrecognized, un-political possibilities of such a statement are staggering.

Never overlook the possible City value of the “safe statement.”  (P.S. Never be seduced by it, either.)

And the Man forthrightly stated, “Listen, I say, ‘Don’t quote me on that,’ and you can quote me on that.”

A truly “nagging question” the City Philosophers simply refuse to face is:  If god were a musician, would he be union?

J.