Rule #252

There's no pagan holiday Christianity can't conquer.

Rule #251

Occasionally the world punishes you for being too good at something. Learn to live with it.

Rule #250

Unfortunately, reality seldom lives up to our hopes and dreams.

Rule #249

Often we are forced to choose not what is the good, but what is the lesser of evils.

Rule #248

Living by yourself for too long can give you cabin fever.

Rule #247

Adrenaline is a powerful thing.

Rule #246

After a long absence, it's always nice to get back to doing the things you love.

Rule #245 (End of Superhero Guest Week & Guest Month)

Superhero Guest Rule #7 (from Superman):

You can't have a war without people dying.

Rule #244

Superhero Guest Rule #6 (from Invincible):

It's easy for superheroes to forget their own strength.

Rule #243

Superhero Guest Rule #5 (from Elongated Man):

Ice cream shops don't just sell chocolate and vanilla because every once in a while someone walks in and orders butter pecan.

Rule #242

Superhero Guest Rule #4 (from Batman):

If you want to beat your opponent you have to think like your opponent.

Rule #241

Superhero Guest Rule #3 (from Big Barda):

Some questions are better left unanswered.

Rule #240

Superhero Guest Rule #2 (from The Flash):

Racing and racing for charity are two entirely different things.

Rule #239 (Beginning of Superhero Guest Week)

Superhero Guest Rule #1 (from Green Lantern):

Question authority and challenge those more powerful than you.

Rule #238 (End of Webcomic Guest Week)

Webcomic Guest Rule #7 (from Red Meat):

People are more likely to listen to you if you have a puppet.

Rule #237

Webcomic Guest Rule #6 (from VGCats):

Sometimes arch-rivals are not very evenly matched.

Rule #236

Webcomic Guest Rule #5 (from Married to the Sea):

The Internet is no place for delicate sensibilities.

Rule #235

Webcomic Guest Rule #4 (from Dr. McNinja):

Life is about important questions.

Rule #234

Webcomic Guest Rule #3 (from Least I Could Do):

If your parents aren't willing to die for you to become Batman, they don't really love you.

Rule #233

Webcomic Guest Week #2 (from Questionable Content):

Maturity is realizing you used to be an idiot. Wisdom is realizing you will be an idiot in the future. Common sense is trying not to be an idiot right now.

Rule #232 (Beginning of Webcomic Guest Week)

Webcomic Guest Week #1 (from xkcd):

Some of us are just pretending to be grownups the best we know how.

Rule #231 (End of Philosopher Guest Week)

Philosopher Guest Rule #7 (by Søren Kierkegaard):

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Rule #230

Philosopher Guest Rule #6 (from William James):

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Rule #229

Philosopher Guest Rule #5 (by Siddhartha Gautama aka The Buddha):

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Rule #228

Philosopher Guest Rule #4 (by Friedrich Nietzsche):

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Rule #227

Philosopher Guest Rule #3 (by Ludwig Wittgenstein, for Shelley):

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

Rule #226

Philosopher Guest Rule #2 (by Immanuel Kant):

Although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Rule #225 (Beginning of Philosopher Guest Week)

Philosopher Guest Rule #1 (by Plato):

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Rule #224 (End of Clichéd Platitude Guest Week)

Clichéd Platitude #7:

Behind every cloud there's a silver lining.

Rule #223

Clichéd Platitude #6:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Rule #222

Clichéd Platitude #5:

You can be anything you want to be if you set your mind to it.