I know people who do not like being laughed at and are quick to take offense. What happens when you trip or fall, make a stupid remark, a mistake? How do you feel when people laugh at you? Are you quick to respond with a caustic tongue accompanied by verbal abuse saying, “Well, who in the hell do you think you are? I’d like to see you do better.” All the while, you puff up like a frog, your cheeks get hot and your hair bristles. Or maybe you even go so far as to come out swinging, shouting, “No one’s gonna laugh at me and get away with it. No sireeeeee.” Let me say, the madder we get, the funnier we become and deserve to be laughed at.

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NEW ORLEANS -- It looks better. It really does. No longer do you see cars on top of houses, boats marooned in the middle of the street and piles and piles of personal possessions. The vast devastated area of New Orleans and neighboring St. Bernard looks tidy now, almost pretty.

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