Low humidity, in the 70's.. sunny.. nice Fall day.
"I had so many bills to pay, when the bill collectors came to my home, they car-pooled." Rodney Dangerfield
01. A Train Wreck
To get rid of all the barnacles that I have developed on my forehead over the years, from sunburn after sunburn.. and to make sure that they don't get cancerous, my dermatologist gave me a cream to apply twice a day to half of my forehead. And he warned me:
For one week, your forehead will itch and get red;
For the next week, your forehead will be painful and get redder;
For the next week, you will look like you have been in a train wreck;
Now, rest for a week,
And then do the other side.
Yes, I do look pretty bad right now.. little kids are cowering behind their mothers, who tell them that I am the big bad boogie man who will get them if they don't shape up.
One of my mottos (as well as for Saint Theresa) has always been: "This too shall pass." I hope that's true in this case. I'm too old to be continually mistaken for the Phantom of the Opera.
02. In 2014?
I found this hard to believe. I was cruising the TV channels this morning and came upon a "Judge" show. A young white lady was suing a school mate, also white, for tearing down her posters advertising a "black and white" high school prom. The school has been having segregated proms for as far back as anyone can remember. Now, the plaintiff and her black friends would like to go to a prom together, but, since the signs were torn down, nobody knew about them.
The judge, a black man, was a bit confounded about the situation. He asked: Do black and white kids go to school together? (yes) Do black and white kids march together in the school band? (yes) Do black and white kids play football together? (yes) Then, why is there a black prom and a white prom?
The mother of the defendant, looking quite smug, said: "That's the way its always been done in our community."
I thought that the Dred-Scott Decision was overturned by the Civil Rights Act.. separate but equal does not always equate to "equal." I assume this case was from central Georgia, some of whose residents didn't get the news yet, or chose to just honor part of the Act. In any event, the Judge made the comment: "Almost all American towns now have residents who are Native American, Asian, and Latino. Which prom do they get to go to?"
03. *Runoff Warfare
Chris McDaniel, Mississippi Senate candidate formally challenged the runoff results from Mississippi's U.S. Senate primary that showed he lost to incumbent Thad Cochran by 7,700 votes. He claims there was voter fraud.
His lawyer says the primary was unconstitutional because it didn't limit Democratic participation. According to Mississippi law, voters are not required to register with a political party, and anyone who did not even vote in a primary election can cast a ballot in either party's runoff.
How does this violate the First Amendment? Religion? Freedom of Speech? I'm confused.
04. *Boston's Own Whitey is Back
Whitey Bulger, convicted gangster, is appealing his 2013 racketeering conviction, saying he didn't get a fair trial because he was not able to claim that he was promised immunity from a now-dead prosecutor.
05. *With Charity for None
The Week magazine mentions a California "charity" that falsely claimed to have been sending "care" packages to wounded U.S. troops, is connected to Move America Forward, a firm run by Tea Party guy, Sal Russo. If true.. this is probably one of the lowest scum-bag activity that I have heard of for a long long time.
06. Chicken or Egg?
Adam Gopnik writes in the New Yorker: "Relatively peaceful and prosperous societies, we can establish, tend to have a declining belief in a deity. But did we first give up on God and so become calm and rich? Or did we become calm and rich, and so give up on God? Of such questions, such causes, no one can be certain. It would take an all-seeing eye in the sky to be sure." (Maybe a diety?)
07. *Crime .. Baseball
"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back." Woody Allen
08. Insider Information?
Where do the savvy investors get their information. One source is "Grant's Interest Rate Observer", published 24 times a year. It was founded in 1983 by James Grant and it is "bearish." I'll probably never get to read it because it costs $1,025 per year. Middle and lower class investors will have to find a library somewhere that keeps copies.
09. A Drinky-poo a day keeps Dementia away
Winston Churchill and Mark Twain knew this years ago.. Harvard Medical School now says that studies have shown that a drink a day may be good for your heart. But other studies with people over 65, show that moderate alcohol consumption may also reduce the risk of dementia.
10. *Inversion .. How to
Jim Hightower has a lot to say about a more and more common tax dodge called inversion" .."which is nothing but a perversion of tax law, business ethics, and common decency. It works like this: By merging with a corporation based in a country with lax tax laws, a U.S. corporation can reincorporate as a citizen of that country and shift its tax obligations there, even though all or most of its profits are made from sales in the US of A."
11. Why do they do it?
Ewin Lyngar writes about Conservative voting: "I have a close friend on permanent disability. He votes reliably for the most extreme conservative in every election. Although he's a Nevadan, he lives just across the border in California, because that progressive state provides better social safety nets for its disabled. He always votes for the person most likely to slash the program he depends on daily for his own survival. IT'S LIKE CLINGING TO THE END OF A THIN ROPE AND VOTING FOR THE ROPE-CUTTING RAZOR PARTY."
12. Don't read the following if you don't want to be embarrassed. Otherwise, just scroll down.
Chuck Shepherd writes in The Funny Paper, there is an Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik. It was founded in 1997, and houses 300 penises from 93 different animals. There is only one specimen missing... from the human male. This will be fulfilled spectacularly by a Mr. Falcon, from New York when he passes on.
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1 comment:
1. Beauty has a price.
2. Was this Judge Joe Brown? I'm sure he could only focus on the damage (if any) the defendants actions caused the plaintiff.
5. Not sure why, but I'm always ready to believe the worst about the Tea Party.
10. Yeah, this is despicable, but - honestly - we'll need a world-wide common market before these practices can really be wiped out.
11. Yeah - it's things like this that make me think democracy is not the best form of government.
12. I went out with a woman who worked for a urological association back in 2004/2005(?) She said her office was lined with penises. For some reason, it didn't work out.
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