As a mother, I enforced the 3 that cover most of those needed by 5 active boys: Keep your hands to yourself; if it’s not yours leave it alone; if you mess it up you clean it up.

That said, please parse my maxim again, carefully, to get the joke.
I didn’t read all 110 of them, but I don’t think it’s in Washington’s list.

We can add: “George Washington wrote out a copy of the 110 Rules of Civility in his school book when he was about 14-years old.” https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/rules-of-civility

Sgt.+Joe+Friday:

Chiming in with Gringo in support of your comment.

Fabulous piece on chance-met acquaintances.
If I were to met such a self-advertiser, I’d keep my remarks pretty short. As in “brief”, not the other “short”.

This guy needs to be who he thinks he is, as the writer sees, and there’s no percentage in discussing it as if it were a matter of facts.

He is one of those who is insulated from the results of his decisions either by circumstance, layers of circumstance, or deflection and blame-shifting to other, less worthy people.

Trying to introduce him to reality is a losing proposition. His self-image would be threatened.

As with my acquaintance, there’s never been a road in her life, speaking metaphorically, which had to be repaired on the double-quick by the less worthy.

the black legends inputed to Batista, who was too self absorbed to be a proper tyrant, there were some men in his entourage like Col Piedra, who were less tackful than most,* but he was too soft,

he hunted down the Humbolt 7 of quixotic dreamers that sought they could take down Batista, this just cleared the decks for the more ruthless set,

the hagiography about che was fulsome and rarely challenged, the golden city, andy garcia’s passion project, shows his true nature, in the
Cabana as supervisor of executioners,

so two generations later, after some self inflicted injuries the ones suggested in Quantum of Solace about water rights, they had a proper figurehead in Evo Morales, the head of the Coca federations, yes you heard that right,

btw there was a brief rebellion that
included military elements, that put a sensible candidate in power, but that was reversed and she is now in prison (she had worked with evangelicals and other bitter clingers,

The funny thing is that so many people on the left are tsk tsking that “Hispanics” will be offended by the joke and for that reason vote for Harris instead of Trump.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: people from different countries in Latin America have differing views on one another. Central Americans in general don’t like Mexicans, Chileans and Argentineans don’t get along, and almost nobody likes Venezuelans. The idea that a joke about Puerto Rico would offend Hondurans is silly.

Yes, indeed. I once attended a showing of a film about Che Guevara and his failed revo in Bolivia. The cinematography was excellent. The film’s creator, an Argentine, led a question and answer session after the film.

At one point in the discussion, I said that given the attitude that many Bolivians have about Argentina, it was rather problematic to have an Argentine lead a revo in Bolivia. I told a Bolivian joke to illustrate the point. The punchline of the joke was that in a Sunday mass before Easter, the priest of a small Bolivian town retold the story of the Last Supper. Judas spoke with unmistakable Argentine slang and accent.

Which got a laugh from the audience. The response of the film’s creator: “Let’s change the subject.”

they want the abolition of every safeguard there is to tyranny, the supreme court, the filibuster, the valid franchise, they have already tried to purge any officers who would object to targeting Americans, then they have that curious DOD directive about targeting Americans on our soil, add to that the permits they have allowed the worst sort of
folk to gather in dc in the run up to the inaugural, antifa,
hamas partisans et al

I’ll let you in on a little secret: people from different countries in Latin America have differing views on one another. Central Americans in general don’t like Mexicans, Chileans and Argentineans don’t get along, and almost nobody likes Venezuelans. The idea that a joke about Puerto Rico would offend Hondurans is silly.

Likewise, the idea that making Puerto Rico a state would cause Mexican Americans in L.A. to vote Republican is stupid.