Rule #587

Johnny Cash Guest Rule #5:

It's so hard to find one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Rule #586

Johnny Cash Guest Rule #4:

Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Rule #585

Johnny Cash Guest Rule #3:

Don't go mixin' politics with the folk songs of our land.

Rule #584

Johnny Cash Guest Rule #2:

Don't take your guns to town.

Rule #583 (Beginning of Johnny Cash Guest Week)

Johnny Cash Guest Rule #1:

Love is a burnin' thing, and it makes a fiery ring.

Rule #582 (End of Political Philosophy Guest Week)

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #7 (from Sun Tzu):

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Rule #581

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #6 (from Thomas Hobbes):

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Rule #580

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #5 (from Ibn Khaldun):

It is absolutely necessary for man to have the cooperation of his fellow man.

Rule #579

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #4 (from Niccolo Machiavelli)

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both.

Rule #578

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #3 (from Adam Smith):

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Rule #577

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #2 (from Hannah Arendt):

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Rule #576 (Beginning of Political Philosophy Guest Week)

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #1 (from Karl Marx):

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Rule #575 (End of Dr. Seuss Guest Week)

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #7:

The turtles are free as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Rule #574

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #6:

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Rule #573

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #5:

There's no end to the things you might know, depending how far beyond Zebra you go.

Rule #572

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #4:

Funny things are everywhere.

Rule #571

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #3:

The Grinch hates Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

Rule #570

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #2:

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Rule #569 (Beginning of Dr. Seuss Guest Week & Guest Month)

A busy school year for Josh means plenty of pre-packaged (and plagiarized) content for you faithful Rule Blog readers (or, as I've affectionately taken to calling you, rulebees). So, get ready for another Guest Month!

Dr. Seuss Guest Rule #1:

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Rule #568

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Rule #567

Tea is delicious.

Rule #566

Lists are bad.

Rule #565

Saying hateful and divisive things just to get a reaction is a bad idea (unless you're FOX News; then it's just business).

Rule #564

Despite Rule #503, some things are just as good as you remember them being when you were a kid.

Rule #563

You should never have to wake up before the sun.

Rule #562

If you go looking for attention, the kind you get isn't going to be good.

Rule #561

There is no good reason to have a mullet.

Rule #560

One man's treasure is another man's irritating train whistle.

Rule #559

Vanity is occasionally very humbling.

Rule #558

Writing rules takes a lot longer when you have to tag them.